On the French TV program Bienvenue chez Nous, the couple who got this bedroom....ended up putting the mattress on the floor to be able to sleep for what was left of their night.
Totally agree. He is a great dad and those two lads clearly adore him. Annalise is lovely, down to earth and practical. They are a perfect pair. I could see them being like the Fleuries if they ever got a Chateau. He is a quick learner and neither of them are afraid to roll their sleeves up and get on with it.
The bathroom thing is inexcusable. After all, she has said that all the plumbing was replaced. High pressure systems are not difficult to install when you have modern plumbing. Problems only arise when there are old joints that can leak under high pressure. And if the original installation was insufficient, electric showers would be a better solution.
you are only meant to strip the leaves that are under the water level (they go mouldy and therefore don't last as long). Not all of them.
When my friends started living at the HMN many of the radiators weren’t even connected and there were places where the pipes were installed but not capped off, never checked. SJ would just turn the heating system on and forget about it. Result: so much water leaking from the attic that the ceiling in the corridor between her apartment and Nic’s old room came down. For years there was no electricity in the small office next to the kitchen, for the same reason: short circuit because of the water leaking down. Instead of fixing it, she used extention cords from the rooms next to it.
The debacle they had at Christmas 2019 when Mason's sister Ashley was there. Potty had to disconnect and remove a faulty radiator. Water was squirting everywhere. It was like watching a bunch of teenagers.
does it have an isolation valve .. failing that switch off the water and drain down the pipe first
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Well we all know SJ is rather handicapped in the manner department, don't we...I thought to myself : hmmm usually, workers' lunch break is sacred (in France at least
Before my friends started living at the HMN, SJ interviewed people for the job of guardian. Marie Poupin was one of them and actually SJ's choice, because of her obvious work ethics. Marie Poupin chose to accept an offer at a different chateau in the neighborhood, no doubt because of better working conditions and employment benefits. She's only working a few ours for SJ cleaning and gardening, payed in cash, no official employment, on top of her real job at the other place, where she also lives with her husband.
In case any of you miss MPK, here's his latest IG story...showcasing how exciting his Friday afternoon is--staring at himself in the mirror and admiring himself!
This is yet another narrative that is invented specifically for the vlogs, to give her something to do. IJ is not a very good gardener at all, only basic knowledge and not much vision or feeling for what will work. She was very happy when my friends took over the garden work and in those years did absolutely nothing in the garden. Smoke and mirrors, even outside the HMN.
Indeed...I personally find young Arthur absolutely adorable and precocious. Little sis will be a heart breaker soon enough.
They are winners...the way they look at one another, the way they speak to one another...true love is hard to find...and they are way ahead of the others...they have already won the game of life.This is so sad. They're such genuine hard-working people and I admire their integrity. Loved when Anna said 'We feel that people who buy chateaux and large houses should pay for the renovations themselves. It's wrong to expect other people to pay for them'.
In some of the earlier vlogs, particularly the Sunday ones, where she would talk about toile or porcelain etc she was capable of speaking, behaving and acting quite reasonably. There was a vlog with her and IJ in the garden, talking about how the vlog had changed chateau life and the squawking and false gratitude was laid on in spades. Meaning, she was starting to rake it in from the grannies. She was noticeably different then. Actually, they both were. IJ came across more like the kind of Disney witch disguised as an old beggar woman who would give you her last apple. Opportunistic and greedy, the pair of them.
Not for the first time, that's for sure.
A PPE outfit as I tried to clean the kitchen.
