I think Fanny only bought La Lande because it was the biggest she could get with her money (she equates the biggest as the best I am not including Snorts polo dick in this assumption.) Puy Vidal, De Brive, Honfleur, De la Ruche are all more beautiful with more original features and smaller but she had to have the biggest her money can buy. Just as well Purdon wasn't on the market when she was viewing. La Lande internally is devoid of much character or original features and what it did have she is destroying.
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i too access this in my phone and genuinely never thought to use the search
but I will for sure now and apologies for all the questions as new to this site also and feeling my way around been a hard week as my son (wirh Aspergers ) had sadly lost his friend in a car crash so my head is not in the right space ! No offence taken and I will deff hunt out this Puy Vidal or whoever they are
With the VIP lounge opening soon, @LittleMore Cottage do you have a thread title, either made one or nominated one.
Also, I received this video from Ruby the cat, shows the real Easter party they had at Lalande. Looks more like havoc to me, but then again anything goes at the derelict farmhouse...
Also, I received this video from Ruby the cat, shows the real Easter party they had at Lalande. Looks more like havoc to me, but then again anything goes at the derelict farmhouse...
I think you’ll enjoy their vlog on the Easter weekend at Lie Lande it’s great to see what the little pink phone doesn’t show, a look behind the curtains as it were. Hope it takes your mind off your troublesi too access this in my phone and genuinely never thought to use the search
No offence taken and I will deff hunt out this Puy Vidal or whoever they are
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You can move peonies but need to replant them careful as too deep or too shallow and they won’t flower. The best Uk supplier is Kelways IMO. A huge family of flowers if different heights and flowering times etc.
The lovely one known as molly the witch is of course good in shade.
You could always grow potatoes and use the great and easy to seed and weed ground cover plants limnanthes douglasii , known as the poached egg plant for this year to clear the ground.Then muck over winter with some HORSE not cow manure and STRULCH. And get plants and bulbs ordered and chosen.
bear in mind that most things only need a few inches of soil unless trees of course… so don’t dig up the builders rubbish to the surface but let the worms pull goodness down.
Roses if you like hips Blance double de Colbert ,maybe phlox, hydrangeas lots of choice and magellanica type fuschia , and underplant with geranium phaem lily Lovell and others like Patricia, and maybe lamium pink Nancy and other lower growing perennial geraniums.
Also different Astilbes,Astrantia ,Bergenia some good ones with leaf colour, Persicarias but not everyone likes these dock looking plants . Fanny has these in her swampy chapel garden
Good bulbs would be chionodoxa, muscari latifolia. NOT the common one….. good daffs that don’t have big heads and drop down for the weight eg white lady scented and a great cut flower. ( uk Avon bulbs) Amongst your hellebore you could right now carefully plant some snowdrops bought in the green and some allium nigrum.
Sorry I do have opinions
Many of us lost shrubs to the frost this year
I consider this sad but a new opportunity!
I had to go back and view the Puy Vidal video, the section of the little village La Chatre. What a charming little town! It is such a shame that Steph has absolutely no connection to anyone there. She totally missed out on so much (but we knew that anyway) - local craftsmen for chateau repair/upkeep, farmer's markets and local artisans. She could have hosted craft fairs, events for the community (remember when she used to host music workshops and performances at the chateau?). There are so many opportunities for connection, but yet when she's out shopping, no one knows her, or really has any reaction to her. She's just another face in the crowd. She could have been such a big part of the community. But, I guess that would take work and commitment, and we know that Steph has neither of those qualities.
Instead she buys a lot of crap (along with Phi Phi) to fill the chateau to the point that it will all come crashing down. Rather sad to have no ambition for anything other than being lazy and bored. So much potential, so little care.
Instead she buys a lot of crap (along with Phi Phi) to fill the chateau to the point that it will all come crashing down. Rather sad to have no ambition for anything other than being lazy and bored. So much potential, so little care.
and use the loos as showers and leave litter, steal water and generally a mess. Having said this I have read that many who can no longer afford to pay rent or a mortgage and these vans are their only home. This makes me very sad as if I found myself like this I would want to be somewhere safe which may not be pleasing to local residents
Dan the Drone, superb photos from Gwen and Billsters Chapel, he is far more clued up than M Potts photo attempts at CHMN
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I agree with you @ScooterMaGoo. But I think Fanny's whole problem now is that strangers (who think they are friends) are paying for her COVID lifestyle. Puttering around with her mummy in her Chateau. But she never did that nor does she want to. She is a resident in England, flutters around and using the HMN as a glorified frat house for her Oxford peeps and associates. This has been mentioned previously by others and it's 100% what's happening. She was living off Airbnb income here and there, workshops a couple times during the summer, a shite B&B of granny tat, but now with people paying her thousands to renovate/restore, she doesn't know how.
Besides getting something actually done and dusted in every video, Billy throws work to his mates. And guess what, they get their work done too. The idea that SJ is able to fleece all of those morons every month is truly unbelievable. At least the Petherick’s have more subscribers that Fanny!
I still think this would be a funny thread title…he is reminding me of Curb Your Enthusiasm guy…lol…meh, halfway to being complete or halfway to disintegrating…
I haven’t watch Puy Vidal since their first episode. I’m in love with the younger sister’s multi colored hair. She couldn’t be any cuter.
I haven’t watch Puy Vidal since their first episode. I’m in love with the younger sister’s multi colored hair. She couldn’t be any cuter.
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"What a joke." would be excellent too
Philip - an architect ? What a joke !Other possibilities instead of architect:
tastemaker
designer
boyfriend
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I don't think Larry David would be impressed with the CHMN: one look at the kitchen table would tell him they don't respect woodI still think this would be a funny thread title…he is reminding me of Curb Your Enthusiasm guy…lol…meh, halfway to being complete or halfway to disintegrating…
I haven’t watch Puy Vidal since their first episode. I’m in love with the younger sister’s multi colored hair. She couldn’t be any cuter.
Penelope is cute; she seems to have a brighter/sunnier personality than the rest of the PV posse.
I just finished watching the latest Chateau Diaries and was coming on here to comment on that light fixture!
First off, I like the light. But it's NOT for either of the two areas they bought it for! I thought Philip was so good at designing? Does he not take measurements of anything? He bought that monstrosity thinking it could go down the freaking hallway - not just one of them, but 5 or 6 of them, all the way down that narrow, low ceilinged corridor? The spot they settled on isn't for it either, especially at the height they were hanging it from and where they were going to hang it. It was too large for the space! Every time someone walks up the stairs, they're going to have to duck or they'll hit their head. Aren't there standards for B&B's in terms of emergency exits? If there's a fire, how is someone expected to jump out of bed and run down that hallway and down the stairs without hitting their head on the damn thing?
Stephanie's just as bad! In the hallway, with the smaller pendant lighting she kept saying "Oh, hang it lower!!" It wasn't until they thought of one person - that Puff man that "buys" her the Fortnum & Mason goodies (sorry I can't remember his name - Andrew?) - that she allowed the lights in the corridor to be hung higher.
This is why architects and designers attend college. This is why they take continuing education courses. If either one of them had bothered to Google, they'd know that there are standard heights for hanging light placement, clearances to adhere to. Any non-designer can see that light was too large - it works in spaces with cathedral ceilings, or large ceiling entryways, not those pokey little hallway spaces at Lalande. No offense to pokey little spaces - I live in a townhome with pokey little spaces, but you wouldn't find me putting in oversized lighting that doesn't fit the scale of its rooms!
It's maddening to watch him go about pretending to be something he's clearly not.
And I've been laughing about it since you first coined it. I will, forever more, always think of them as chateau Puy Lentil. Bravo @NotAChatelaine
Though I have to confess I'm not a fan. Found them a little dull. I remember the mother and a daughter being at CHMN. I also remember fanny, phyll-arse and wavey Davey going to view on the Puy Lentils behalf. I feel the mother is, or has been, beholden to fanny for her input and help with the viewing. However, after this Easter weekend, that feeling maybe waning. Papa Puy Lentil definitely not impressed CHMN nor fanny. And probably won't put any tit from her. The daughter and girlfriend want in on fanny's viewers. Whether that will happen who knows.
I feel fanny sent phyll-arse to ch. Puy Lentil to get rid of him for a while, though it looks like only for the day. Maybe she told him he could get content for his own channel and will sell him up to others in the chateauverse. Fanny is definately becoming more and more snipey with phyll-arse and phyll-arse is becoming more and more mumbley, sulky answering back! It's like watching the beginning of an acrimonious breakup. They both have dirt to dish on each other so it will be interesting to watch this play out!
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They have been cleaning up for sure….. probably shocked by the peasant revolt.
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oh that is sad ! I took it there was no town nearby as they always push how rural the chateau is and I’ve never googled it lol ! She could indeed have held many fairs or brocantes etc in the summer wonder why they have not integrated locally esp as they speak French
I loved MPotts in the latest Vlog....making Pizza & f-all for snots, special pizza - saw lots of creme fraiche, cheese & even bacon with egg ala carbonara pizza.
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Also the little git had a drink of the Easter tea… apart from it being very expensive it had orange blossom flowers in it and yes they are citrus! ,.
Did Potts put his bun recipe up on the patron flog?
most recipes will have mixed fruit and peel yes snorts that is Citrus , ,remember you are allergic.
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Also the little git had a drink of the Easter tea… apart from it being very expensive it had orange blossom flowers in it and yes they are citrus! ,.
Did Potts put his bun recipe up on the patron flog?
most recipes will have mixed fruit and peel yes snorts that is Citrus , ,remember you are allergic.
I would also have thought as a B&B they would have to have emergency lighting incase if fire etc but I stand to be corrected
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