The Chateau Diaries #72 Winter is coming

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I’m happy for you to keep it for the time being. It’s ‘helping’ me first thing!
Hello! It’s now a beautiful morning in my part of the world. For those of you who need a little “bowel assistance” to start the day, please observe. Otherwise…keep scrolling!!! Trigger alert! 😆

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@Phoenix Richards-Bingham Thank you. ❤ BJJ is now a lighting expert??? 🤪 When explaining it, BJJ never refers to Nutti but instead keeps saying, "people". So, my guess, it will be a rental in the future. SJ also explains that her London flat has been closed up during covid. Well, that is not true. FRK used it for quarantine when she went to retrieve her donated vehicle. On another note, Celeste arrives today. 🍿
Good catch.
Both Nati's office and bed will be in the same tiny space, with a tiny kitchen to cover it all with cooking smells. Do they really expect her to live and work in that space? Could she not have a heated office within the chateau itself?
 
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Thank you, PRB!

1)Okay, blurrry ..... support squirrel, FOCUS
2) Do NOT have PJ call, have Amaury call about getting a deal on the radiators, or Dan as well. They will be much much better at negotiating a deal. PJ is not the right guy for that job.
3) thank God you are getting a new boiler ... I think you should just get new radiators for the entire place. Once you're going for a deal on 12ish, you will get a better deal the more you get, so just do the lot .... the rest are on their way out any second any way.

.... pausing to view a bit more

4) PLEASE invest in a decent camera ... sheesh, the quality of this video is horrid. I'm just 9 minutes in and it is driving me nuts

**Amaury's voice is like a massage. Just so pleasant **

I've resorted to just listening. The visual is making me feel ill. The heavy breathing for a bit there in a garden ... ugh

Why does PJ have to bring up his allergies all the time? It's like, seriously, it's not all about you and when you do that it makes the poor cook who has done so much work feel bad. UGH!

GOING TO HER FLAT IN LONDON NEXT WEEK!! UGGGHHHHHH! Q&A coming.

Tatyanna has skills!!! SJ is going to wish she had a ballroom so she could keep Tatty for cooking!!
1) I watched without my glasses - so everything is just slightly off-kilter! But fits with the general LaLa ambience :ROFLMAO:

2) YES! Amaury has years of proper, professional trade experience of sourcing materials. And has proper French! Plus that 🥰voice would seduce anyone into anything!

3) A new boiler - great, at last! Let's just sit back and watch it blow out all the old radiators...😤

Those frikking allergies! How on earth did he manage to acquire so many? He slips them in so very often, as if we should be deeply interested. Did his family over-focus on his childhood fragilities? Was he seriously poorly as a child? Seems like a list of his few safe edibles could fit on the back of a postage stamp... Usually children grow out of most intolerances. Perhaps he's still in that phase....🤔

Good grief! Has the flat been empty throughout the bug? Ugghhh.

Have to say that I like Tatty's calm, measured way. She just gets on with things, doesn't get sucked into Steffie's scatty and cacophonous over-excitement. And she has Serious Skills. 👍💗
 
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Good question! I thought just the same. And I'm in northern climes where we avoid such idiotic ideas if at all possible.
But, have you noticed, they never close the curtains in winter...

This is yet another example of why they need a professional survey of the heap. The resulting Energy Performance Certificate and report would be very revealing and a great help to the heating engineers.
I don't believe a minute that they freeze there at all, why bother with closing shutters or curtains when she just bought a couple of fancy Dyson heaters?

Do you think Naty from Argentina can be bothered lightning a wood stove? Every single day during winter? Going out every day, fetching the logs, chopping it even small, making some kindling herself? And having to clean out the firebox and carry the ashes across the courtyard to the compost ( and removing the planks from Slymars gigantic compost🙄) ?
Sure, she could always ask Phil to do it.... He would open wide his eyes, look astound for a sec, but then quickly recover and say: my pleasure, if you could just show me how to do it?

All her clothes would get dirty. It's much more decorative to throw a shawl over her and have a quick run in her robe to the kitchen where Amaury can warm her up.

They heat with electricity, that's it. Convenient and fast, pushing aside the costs since the bill comes much later.
 
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Thank you, PRB!

1)Okay, blurrry ..... support squirrel, FOCUS
2) Do NOT have PJ call, have Amaury call about getting a deal on the radiators, or Dan as well. They will be much much better at negotiating a deal. PJ is not the right guy for that job.
3) thank God you are getting a new boiler ... I think you should just get new radiators for the entire place. Once you're going for a deal on 12ish, you will get a better deal the more you get, so just do the lot .... the rest are on their way out any second any way.

.... pausing to view a bit more

4) PLEASE invest in a decent camera ... sheesh, the quality of this video is horrid. I'm just 9 minutes in and it is driving me nuts

**Amaury's voice is like a massage. Just so pleasant **

I've resorted to just listening. The visual is making me feel ill. The heavy breathing for a bit there in a garden ... ugh

Why does PJ have to bring up his allergies all the time? It's like, seriously, it's not all about you and when you do that it makes the poor cook who has done so much work feel bad. UGH!

GOING TO HER FLAT IN LONDON NEXT WEEK!! UGGGHHHHHH! Q&A coming.

Tatyanna has skills!!! SJ is going to wish she had a ballroom so she could keep Tatty for cooking!!
To be fair it’s a bit of an inconvenience if you die just being polite because you don’t want to bring up your allergies.
Tatyanna gives me Megan Markle vibes . She’s shifty.
Her and Salmar will be off soon . I get the feeling he’s had it with the place
 
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To be fair it’s a bit of an inconvenience if you die just being polite because you don’t want to bring up your allergies.
Tatyanna gives me Megan Markle vibes . She’s shifty.
Her and Salmar will be off soon . I get the feeling he’s had it with the place
Haha, she is maybe a bit like me with my in-laws: cooking a couple of fantastic meals just to show she can, getting all the praise, then to do it never again..... Yeah, I do sometimes have a mean passive aggressive side, but only to people who deserve it.
 
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To be fair it’s a bit of an inconvenience if you die just being polite because you don’t want to bring up your allergies.
Tatyanna gives me Megan Markle vibes . She’s shifty.
Her and Salmar will be off soon . I get the feeling he’s had it with the place
Have to agree with you there. She's got her own plans. Will probably stay Chez LaLa just long enough to establish her own new brand in the Shattoeverse. Though I do appreciate her calm, measured way and that she doesn't allow Steffers to drag her into all the over-excitement and drama.
 
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Chicken house got raised at least a few feet up.

China pantry on hold. Though Ian may sneak in there and finish the plastering, then Matt can do the tiles ... the cabinets will wait for Amaury when he has time in the future.

The toilet for the downstairs loo is here, so they have EVERYTHING for it ... but she wants Selmar to finish it and he's off doing other jobs for other people ... so we wait more

The shutterdogs got mentioned, for all you shutterdoggers! She's in no hurry to have them put on. Matt will put them on sometime over the winter ... she's zen about them, and many other things!

She's doing another secret project with CDIY which will take Anne Marie's time for a couple weeks.

I appreciate Anne Marie's work on the new shutters, but I swear this is the FOURTH time she's had a long conversations with him about how he's doing it ... once was enough, now it is BORING.

Oct 13 & 14 they should be on Chateau DIY with the front entrance and pigeon stair case.
There is another project, a small entrance we rarely see that she's done with them as well, and it should be out in not too long.
And Gerry's apartment is also a secret project with them ... but they have just gotten it to the stage we see Natti's apartment at, so doesn't sound very interesting.

Philip explained the lighting plans for Natti's

They talked about the missing peachick and visited the peacocks and the chickens ... Philip misses the previous chick that went missing ...

And we visited the upstairs shower room AGAIN and it isn't any different then the last visit. We did get to see the pink tiles that will go in there ... they looked a bit better than the photo ... juries out though. The wallpaper comes in a couple of weeks. (Josie is a wallpaperer and would have liked to help with a wallpaper job).

Josie and Tatti are working really well together in the kitchen. Very kind words for each other.

I'm seasick from watching what I did watch ...
Note to Steph: Brexit got through, don't order things from UK anymore!
 
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Gawd, how awful she is, All the manic talking at speed and excessive jolly manner, body language and gestures serve to give the overall impression that she knows she is lying and being deceitful and every time she does a Patreon video, her whole manner suggests that she's cheating them and feels guilty about it so she puts on her "jolly" show and rushes through all the stuff she's embarrassed about. She is infuriating. Once she's rushed through the work being done and the money elements, she then slows down a bit and switches to her slightly less manic presenting style! All the rubbish about now being able to show the pigeon staircase, etc., now it's on the TV show - she's shown all these things loads of time in the vlogs already!
I really wish she would stop acting like an over-excited 6 year old girl; at a birthday party; it's annoying enough in a spoilt child but is way more annoying in a spoilt middle aged woman! And the almost equally annoying SS is already acting as if he's in charge of planning!
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His eyes are wonky. And always...not just from that avatar pic.

Question #7779!
Does anyone have a synopsis of SJ's Patreon video???
Wondering what spin she put on the broken Boiler/ radiator debacle?
Isn't that just centuries of British inbreeding, I think Br
Picking up on a previous post, Christie's is implicated in this world wide network of pirated artifacts. No one should do business with them, think of their endorsement as an honor, think of them as arbiters of taste, or of their hallmark as a fair ascription of value to goods.
It's not black and white, they facilitate a need, I've bought through them and the research they did for each item I bought was credible/sound and they were a good sounding board in terms of evaluations and providing information on areas I was less knowledgable. I also inspected the items I bought, evaluated their provenance and did my own research. Much like anything it's buyer beware, and if you're spending upwards of 100K on an armoire you're probably also in a position where you have professionals look at your purchase before you buy it, or be educated enough to make your own evaluation or on the other hand have way too much money to care about its authenticity. The antique, art and artefact market is very broad and auction houses normally have a fairly skeleton staff that need to churn through an inventory even if its not necessarily their specialisation, they are not necessarily academic or museum experts on each item/area they need to catalogue. But hey, SJ doesn't need to bear the heavy burden of dealing with auction houses, she's cramming every inch of that Shittoo with tacky emmaüs refuse ......

It is the Shittoo where crappy antiques go to die .........

The more vlogs she does on other Chateau's that have been renovated also highlights the deficiencies of her own ......

( She needs to clean that sofa, I saw one like that sitting on the the street curb the other day, maybe its the same one ...... ) :unsure: 😂

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