Davey on vacay at the South of France studio is too boring for even Stephanie to show on CD. Sorry Davey, still love you.
The Chateau Diaries #306 The Chateau Diaries has become Me, Me, Me, Me and How to Spoil Oneself
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What I find weird is the number of ppl whom presumably have had access to those flats. I mean, my parents had a summer house and apart from a couple of times when they would let some of the family going there, there was no "friends" who would rent or be lend for free the summer house. I find it quite transactional. Did they pay to go there, if again presumably, they go there for holidays and/or just to crash because they have some business in the city(London) since at least the one in France is supposedly rented as holiday let? And that is quite a lot of friends to hands the keys over to. It is something to invite people over in your home when you're there, it's quite something else to say yeah use my stuff and my pad.
I may be mistaken, but I recall that they have a daughter who was briefly shown in a couple of their early vlogs. I assume their daugther spends most of her time studying/working back in Canada, but they do not mention her.
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Maybe Davey is a nudist at heart.
Unless she pays a management company to clean, wash sheets and towels etc in between guests
Really? I totally missed that!
I think that was the sewist’s niece and not her daughter.
I'll ask her.
I wish you were my neighbours!Thank you for the fresh new thread @ComtesseRose, to @TorontoGWM for the new (and aptly fitting) title, and to @tuffiti for uploading the vlog.
I'm trying to catch up, as the last post and this are going at lightning speed (and I have not watched any vlogs since Sunday night!) It's been a busy week at Casa de T Rex with yard work, meetings for the non-profits I volunteer for, the dogs, and helping my neighbours.
My new neighbours are snow birds (they are in Germany), so we take care of the shared "jungle" between our properties, and whilst he they do have a lawn service, we still go over to spray for weeds in their pavered walkway and driveway. My other neighbour is currently on holiday in Aruba with the "Glam Squad" (they are all fabulous dames in their mid-70s to late 80s- they are a fit, tanned lot with perfect nails and are always dressed to the 9s.) We also take care of what her lawn service does not, and when she is away, we usually fertilize her lawn (because we have to look at it- LOL), and I make her leave me a list of things she needs repaired (because she pays people far too much money and they do a half-assed job for something we can just do for free in 5 minutes.) Last month, she was going to pay a handyman $300 to replace 3 outdoor light bulbs- Mr. T Rex, "NO. Get out your phone, and I will type in the bulbs you need. Pick them up from Lowe's or Home Depot on your way home from tennis, and it will take me three minutes."
Her only thing on the list before she departed on holiday was, "The garage door is making a strange sound." I dragged Mr. T Rex over on Monday to look at it- the whole thing needed maintenance, but as we were closing the garage door "poof"- cloud of smoke like a new pope has been elected. The opener assembly itself is original to the house (almost 20 years old), and a capacitor shyte the bed. While it was something we could repair, we would have had to get the part, and we had our own issues to deal with when our pool salt cell quit working because a lizard got into the power supply housing and shorted out the whole damn board. Lizards are assholes. But, I am of the mindset everything happens for a reason, so we have a new system arriving in a few days (It was old. I get the joy of re-plumbing a new system and the electrics- it's fine.)
I am also of the mindset that the neighbour's garage door opener happened for a reason, as she would have freaked out when it started smoking (worse yet if we were not home- she would have certainly called the fire department!). I called our awesome local garage repair company, whom I told, "It's probably the capacitor, but if you have to replace the whole assembly, it is okay- it is original to the house." Any other company would have fleeced her for a new opener, but Marco, "It's just a cap- yeah, the unit is old, but it is still good." While we we there, Mr. T Rex realized she had some ancient lighting (the lightbulbs in her kitchen were a hodgepodge of incandescent, CFL and LED bulbs)- he went to Lowe's and bought her new MATCHING lightbulbs and installed them. "Cheeseus, no wonder she is a terrible cook- she's been cooking in a cave!" "No bae, she just hates cooking!"
I DO remember their niece being on a vlog. I believe they said it was a niece and later, when a vlog came out about Sarah's sister living in Europe, it made sense...and I think they showed Sarah's family in a vlog, when they went there on vacation. Maybe I'm just conflating two instances into the vlog where they went to Luxembourg and visited Sarah's sister? Who knows.
I'm just really having a hard time wrapping my brain around the idea that they have children - and not because of my dislike for them, either. One, I have not seen them acknowledge children of their own and, two, there have been a couple of articles out of Canada written about them and no children have been mentioned. There would be no reason to not acknowledge child, although I completely understand that they may not have them on camera or talk about them if they wanted to shield from social media.
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NICE! I'm going to be up all night thinking about this! Knowing you're going to ask might help me sleep!
** I really have to get myself together if worrying about these two is keeping me up!
Their need to copy everything Stephanie does is hilarious.
look how wide the jaw line is with filler
completely transactional my MIFH has several properties and is also an Annie orphaned Starbucks if you listen to hear tales of woe The sob story of being orphaned at 20 and somehow still having a rich daddy and grandad alive is quite the story. Like F$F she travels every 2 weeks to someplace and always never short of friends to supplement her income and entertainment. She does the exact same thing allowing her favored staff 1 week in her holiday accommodation after slaving away for her all year. They still have to clean up the holiday apartment before they go and also she takes the maid with her sometimes as a "bonus" holiday but you no who's going to do all the running around and cleaning and cooking ..
hanahan6327
4 hours ago
What does Philip do for a living?
@TheChateauDiaries
1 hour ago
None of your business, peasant!
Oooooooo snarky, hit a raw nerve did it, another subscriber down.
Springtime at Lalande - especially the chapel.Ah, Springtime at Versailles!
It was my parody response.
Let's keep everything crossed she doesn't go out mushroom forraging without consulting at worse a book, at best the local pharmacy.it’s unbelievable isn’t it. Not content with slobbering all over the food, she could have have given guests a rather bad stomach ache or worse. Google is your friend MariE. Do your research before you inflict your stupidity on guests. She’s as thick as two short planks
God forbid she takes up foraging
Stupid cow, just stop with the friggin floral accents. Please just stick with putting flowers in vases and not on plates, before your boss gets sued by someone.
That's what I thought too, but it would be edible. It doesn't taste good, but it's not poisonous.
Thinking of it, can't say I've seen any about here either. Back in the day when I was doing my training at Mount Brown, I'd drive past the cress beds in Abinger Hammer.
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Well I am biased but I would suggest looking over this side. The Vendee has a beautiful coastline and also bocage area and a microclimate to boot.
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Funnily enough I don't believe there are any wind installations, toys or other thing of that genre! I certainly never came across any such toys while my boy was growing up. Unless you count the Parc éoliennes that are everywhere. And, I have to say, fascinating. Silent, white giants with propellers sails. They have an elegant and ethereal beauty. Many complaints about them being noisy and making vibrations. Nimbys everywhere. However most of the people who complain have never been up close to one.
A lot of the coastal gardens have grasses that swish and swosh in the breezes. And there is the Defi Wind, an annual competition of windsurfers and kitesurfers who make their own poetry on the sea.
As for tiles made of volcanic rock, I'm sure someone somewhere in the world make tiles from it but I don't believe in France. Most people furnish their homes with tiles from Italy, Spain and Portugal. There are artisans that still .ake the ciment block tiles like these
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Has Grant moved on? I understood he was going to be there for a couple of months. Fed up already of being used and abused ... or is Despicable fanny tripping up on her lies again! Eh Gooder?
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What is it you want from your location?
That's the question that himself and I are asking ourselves. Not that we're going anywhere in the foreseeable but it's good to be prepared rather than up sticks to a location you're going to end up hating! And you're stuck. Forever!
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The invasive blue-flowered plant you talk of is borage. The flowers are edible and a classic garnish for Pimms.
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