The Chateau Diaries #311 Got to pretend to be in the UK for 181 days a year to be a UK tax resident!

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Annalise is def taking Nati’s position- I mentioned the signs a while ago. Amaury and Nati have had enough of Steph allowing Snorts to take over.
I don't think Snorts is to blame for the lack of progress, sure he is an annoying spunk bubble, but Fanny calls the shots on what is done and where the money is spent. She has been paying Amaury and he could have replaced all the windows or repaired them in the last two years, it is Fanny who delays and sets him to wait table. Amaury could have done stuff off his own bat too but he is a husk of a human being and is done with the place. Snorts is an idiot with overblown ideas of his talents (of which I am yet to see any) but Fanny has been at the dump 20 years and never did anything. Take a look on Tripadvisor from 2019 and just look at how many weeds are on the drive she couldn't even do that. She is lazy work shy and adverse to spending on anything, Snorts is her biggest look over there and blame him not me, she is a cunning unpleasant woman. The iron hand in the velvet glove that is Fanny as hard as nails, spiteful, nasty but under the guise of softness,
 
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I guess literally poor Julie Sandwich is going to have to literally sell her Italian apartment to help to literally pay for the literal repairs that the estate literally requires. Literally.
What a con is that new channel of her's. It is literally a rehash of what she has already shown of the Italian house renovation.
 
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Hard no.
looks more like something a paediatric dentist should wear
 
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All I have to hear is the drum riff at the beginning of that wretched song and I can’t hit the eff you button fast enough! If she hadn’t dug in her heels when her viewers told her how annoying it is I might’ve kept watching her. But hey, I follow too many vlogs as it is.
 
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A wonderful description of old Potts !
Bravo Woody !!
 
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Thank you for the book recommendation! That would be an interesting read to see three generations of gardening, I'll look for it. And yes, I have a number of Rosemary Verey's garden books, too!

As an aside, I watched Nicholas Fairford's vlog when he stayed at Barnsley House!
 
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They are moving. (Nati and Amaury) They are done and who can blame them? Snorts Ruins Everything.
Nothing, now, would surprise me least if armoire n' nutti are moving to the south of France but I feel this is their own kind of click bait to get the tongues clacking.
 
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Mr Spratt said it's never ends well when an Architect get too involved on a building/renovation site. Sorry any architects out there but his opinion is they can draw a pretty picture, then they need to sod off and leave the rest to the professionals to get the job done.

I just wonder have these restorers cottoned on that she has zero common sense and the gay fianceeee has no sense at all. That together with two useless co owners who don't give a toss, they can keep this running for months. If there are added extras to the original estimate who is signing the agreement to them or is she just blindly giving them what is appearing to be free reign.

Makes me laugh when you think she's as tight as a duck's arse on everything else, animal care, food the longest heating job ever estimated and yet coughs up $$$$$$$$ for this folly of a chapel.
 
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Same. I am still suffering trauma after seeing piles of her poo. Mega ick.
 
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June 2016 photos TripAdvisor photos


2019 trip advisor photos
 
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I cannot stand the Strawbridges, so far up their own arses they could operate themselves as glove puppets. Hideous over induldged pillocks.
 
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Practically everything that has gone wrong with that dump has been caused by the Jarvis crew, Fanny and her parents. It's all down to ignorance, neglect, or shoddy workmanship caused by their desire to save money by not employing experts. It's not actually the fault of the people they employed who tried their best but were persuaded to do it. Neither is it caused purely by ageing or natural causes. Fanny behaves like the immature, spoilt child that she is and even since she's had money from others to enable the work to be started, she still concentrates first on appearances, on the decorative aspects, rather than essential things like drainage and structure.The crumbling, damp buildings and the jumbled, filthy state of the interiors is all down to her. She has now spent hundreds of thousands on the chapel decoration, a building that will hardly ever be used for its intended purposes and she has neglected the essentials. I have no doubt that, in a few years’ time, the chapel will start deteriorating again because, after her initial exhilaration at the newly decorated interior, she will lose interest and be on to her next decorative project. She will have neglected to check moisture levels, etc. In the long run, all the many thousands that gullible people have given her will go down the drain and whoever buys it or inherits the place, will have a millstone round their neck, all thanks to Flouncy Fanny Four Flues.
 
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I do remember sometime ago her mother said something about her fanny, changing her mind, stalling delaying changing things all the time, that she was the reason nothing got done. I do believe it doesn’t have anything to do with money we all have commented from the beginning on the state of the windows and windowsills. That is something that anybody could’ve done sand it down, stripped the paint and then Ann Marie could’ve fixed any of the woodwork that could’ve been done by him.
 
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Same. I am still suffering trauma after seeing piles of her poo. Mega ick.
Oh Gawd....I totally forgot about that. It was disgusting and I stopped watching for a while after that whole "let's powerwash my poo" video. I've just recently started up again, as I wanted to see what's going on there, out of sheer boredom. I have to confess that, rightly or wrongly, I have a soft spot for her as she lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks. Not that she promotes it in any real way, but in the back of my mind I know it and I have a lot of empathy for her in that regard.

She goes antiquing a lot, too, and I fast forward right through that, as I do on anyone's vlog. I used to do a fair amount of that myself and I find it so boring to watch other people do it, picking up everything and talking about how it could be used, what it is, etc. It's a snooze fest for me!
 
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I guess literally poor Julie Sandwich is going to have to literally sell her Italian apartment to help to literally pay for the literal repairs that the estate literally requires. Literally.
I even find Julie’s IG posts irritating. Now that she’s quite proficient in Italian her posts from Italy are littered with Italian words and phrases. As if she *literally* invented the language.

Such a shame that she grates on me so much. The Mapperton estate - house et al - is a bit of a hidden jewel but I find Julie’s relentless, gushing enthusiasm more than a little off putting.

Her parents-in-law are ace!
 
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She invited the television company into her home. She wanted fame and fortune and everything that goes with it. Trying desperately for years to be noticed. She got very rich off of the back of it. Secured "design" contracts with wallpaper and fabric companies. She courted it and deserves what happened. The television world, below the surface, is not a pretty one. Play the game or fuck off. She is not a nice person and happily courts not nice people (like attracts like), but then screams belly 'O when it all goes wrong for her.
 
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Filippo was at the wedding.
 
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