Supporting Local Rescue, Journey to the Château de Colombe, Ep. 49

Supporting Local Rescue, Journey to the Château de Colombe, Ep. 49

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speaking friends from around the world   so Bienvenu and then welcome to the journey  to the Chateau here in chateau de colombe Tony and   Jane just left a wonderful afternoon evening  and so the we're recording this really late yes   and it's definitely it was a day it was  so long it was sunny it was warm it was gorgeous   yeah beautiful day today and then what and then  it got really cold fast as you can see by our   sweaters it just the temperature just dropped  as I don't even know I don't I have no   comparison no anyways so it was a great  week Nessa is doing really really well yep   she does seem to really love being home  I think so yes we did uh quite a bit of   autumn cleanup yes outside we Patrick  spent some time trimming back some of the   plants yes clearing out some of the dead ivy  and dead plants and new plantings yeah   so it was a very busy but good  week right and let's have a look at that okay so planning for next year by the way this is a  courtyard that I don't think we've ever shown   there's a surprise for later  in this courtyard right well we've   only we've only shown it when we have  come out here and harvested the figs   out of this fig tree so we have if  you look at this it's a huge    trunk yeah it's a huge trunk with one coming out  but there were quite some tree some figs on it  but that needs to go the other one is so  tall and skinny and and it's shading everything   so we have four fig trees here so we will take cut  this one down completely right just so you can see   this is we're talking about this part but this is  not even the main part of the big tree the main   part of the big tree is actually all over here  yeah and then if you go and even further around   so this is probably like several fig trees at  this point really isn't it it's like seven or   eight right I I you know well we have another  one on the property or two on the right yeah   that are not fruit bearing age yet right so and  then I look the careful there's a wisteria here so a couple of weeks ago I cut these life  forms of the wall this is actually Ivy yeah   ivy stems that I cut through so I can now pull  them off right what I've seen and you can see this   it's yet another fig tree which grows from  out from under the wall so um this we have to   really prune down quite significantly right it's  also shading everything so the nothing dries   but when you look at this a lot of this is  now slowly dying after two weeks but I just   realized that up there it's just so lovely fresh  and green this actually grows out of the wall so   I need to cut that right and we need to strongly  bleach it so that it hopefully kills the plant   and this here is actually the window to a  workshop the only window we have there in the   back right we have one the front and with ivy one  always has to wait till it's dead and releases its   roots so just it's a whole different story but   it will have more light it's amazing isn't it yeah   so this is one corner that seriously needs some  work and clearly that does not let go right   and this is a window of the second part  of the Farmhouse right the ferme which again   that's what we need to cut this way back so  we actually have light that can work on it   and if you turn around this is what I've been  working on the other day actually yesterday   I don't know if you can capture what  this Boston Ivy has done to the roof   it's completely  shattered and splintered a lot of   the shingles so we are  having to order new shingles   which they are in production so that's good  and we have to re-lay about a third of this roof   which we can do even without Tony even though it is more fun with Tony gutter repair obviously gutter repair   and I pulled a little bit down we have to be  careful because this has a wasp nest in it behind   the wall so it's in a roof part the size of   this is quite remarkable I mean no hold on there   yeah in in relation to a fist I mean this is  really huge we're going to keep this thing   here down here uh Let It Grow underneath the  window but everything that will grow up we   will yeah so it will still keep it so maintain it  so it stays only below the window it looks like a   hedge across the bottom for like a hedge row yeah  and the the top part is now slowly dying and   it's a beautiful in general beautiful  plant right but it's too much and I don't I don't   think you can quite see it here on the camera  but what this little building has on the side   of it is a whole row of windows and we'll take  a look at it from the inside quick oh yeah oh my God so beautiful  although it's the end of summer   when the cranes leave it's the end of summer and it's interesting the the sand cranes that we  had in flying over our house in Woodstock made   exactly the same noise but these cranes are darker  and the sand cranes have a golden coppery color   but it's so so beautiful and it's bon voyage  and come back next year and bring spring with you   yes okay so anyway before that lovely images the  lovely crane Interruption so this is one of three   Stables here yeah now we know that our former  or the mother of our next door neighbor   started to paint in here so it is like a studio  with a lot of the plaster work having come down way over 150 years old They need to be repaired but we  can't do this until we have   the Boston Ivy gone and we need to  clear this out because it is full of   debris right especially from  stuff that fell off the ceiling right   this we have planned it's south facing to use  as a little Greenhouse to pre-grow our tomatoes   and all kinds of vegetables that we want to  plant next year and that can be done in this room we did buy some items yes we have some  new things for the Chateau uh just a few   things yes like oh so this is a  Wedgwood plate commemorating   William Shakespeare and these are two miniature  busts behind us that are from the 18th century   well they are copies they're actually quite famous  and I'm pretty sure we'll have the name of them   or not not here no but not that that's very  important but so this goes through   a charity that is it's an animal charity right  and rescue right and we will have we've planned   a little outing for I think in two weeks or  future episode yep oh three with Tony Jane   and John and Claire to go there together  and then we'll have more information about   this animal sanctuary then so and it's it's  just it's just wonderful but it is so we we got   some stuff and almost everything of course needs  quite a bit of work and we did that we did so one thing we're discussing about this console  table is that at some point it is very old it's   beautifully carved it's wood with gesso on top and  then it was gilded and then at some point someone   had the creative idea to spray gold on top of  a gold gilded table base or console base   and put a little touch yourself what is that it's  kind of a copper yeah copper highlight something   so one thing we wanted to do is actually to  have a look just very carefully here with uh   there's a steel wool right zero steel for some  people oh right well yes so you rub carefully   you get some of it off and can you can see  what's underneath without scraping anything   right which yeah because we don't want to do  anything that's going to lose any of the detail   right we don't I don't think so okay if  you say so I I go with what Stuart says yeah so that's not bad actually it is taking  a bit of that offer there isn't it yeah it is   it's pretty good but the one thing it doesn't do is uh taking off and he there was uh some some more ah damage of the gesso and there's  not much it's really in in fantastic shape right   um here there are some tiny  pieces that are not great but uh so you can see there is the  substance is great yeah yeah we're going to order it's a German  company uh they're specialized in gilding   um uh if I read that correctly and I might be  wrong but which I often are um is but they even   deliver uh gilding material to the Louvre oh okay  one of the one of the many companies that do so   here this is where you can see do you see the  original gilding comes through it's right there   so here we can oh yep that is how it used to look wow how about it okay I don't know if you can  if the camera can capture this and see if I can and I think some people were wondering what  we mean by uh you know a very sensitive   restoration we don't want to strip  this down this we we you know we wanted   be as careful as we can because every time we do  anyone does anything kind of drastic with these   pieces you take away a layer of history  and that is not what we want to do right yeah so it's here you can see  how pretty the old gilding was yeah this is when I get my moments when I  think look at these pieces and think what   happened to you let me know what's your story  exactly and it's it that is exactly what it is   all these pieces have the story who knows  where this piece originally came from   and uh what this piece has seen   so if you know how old about approximately  this piece is let us know we'll appreciate it so well sir goes away I got  um this nightstand it's Oak   and turn that around I thought it was very cute and uh I'm going to clean it now  and then polish and wax it so it has   um some nourishment on it because it needs it foreign so this is how this looks now it was  very dusty and had a lot of stains   and I think I am doing us all the  favor if I'm doing this tomorrow again in the daylight so the stains are  gone this is uh really pretty solid oak   cabinet I'm very very pleased so now you  know what we got but on our way there   we um there was a sign for uh it's  a gorgeous little town it is really   pretty brilliant yes and there was  a sign to the Chateau and of course you know some sort of a chateau that  is actually attached or related to   the town right and and or you know okay  so and some of them are completely gone   of course but uh or it is a town that was  dominated by by the church so it would be   The Bishop's Palace or the sea so it or  Cardinal depending on what it was but so   here was the Chateau and we did look at it yes  we stopped by for a visit from the exterior foreign foreign foreign foreign now we have gotten quite a few  comments over the months asking about   our shipping containers right I know it's almost  like a little joke uh and other people from the   United States when they move here their containers  took between five and nine months to get here so   um ours are unwrapped for what four  months four and a half months right   we're here for uh five and a half so  they're on here since uh they've been in   they've left Chicago I think early June oh no  mid-june actually in June yeah uh and they're   supposed to arrive this week yes they're almost  here well are they well we were told that they   are almost here so we will have uh white wine  glasses and red wine glasses and all these   wonderful things and no place to put them right  so they're going to stay in the buses right right   but at least we have everything and it's here well  it's nice and yes yes it will be here are you sure   well we're not actually quite sure they said it  would be here let's just say we're curious what   they're what we are gonna get delivered and uh we  are hopeful tentatively hopeful that is actually   that does actually our things right and so and so  hopefully our Vlog next week will be about us and   the arrival of our shipping container oh yes let's  please do so and so since uh it's later this week   um I actually did ask Jane if she wanted to come  over to help me drink because that's helpful foreign we are hopeful that it's it's our  stuff and um yeah fingers crossed down   in German I mean in Germany we we actually  do the summons right okay ah don't you okay   me did you hear that anyways so uh  yes it's exciting uh it's interesting   and since we have no single room that is  ready to receive Furniture in the Chateau   right not one no well we haven't been here in that  long no no it's you know every room has actually   progressed to something right uh well I most of  them have digressed from what it was to stripping   things back and so now slowly working on on the  rooms and don't forget it's just the two of us   uh so we will keep you posted some stuff that's  actually right it's actually ourselves which is   sometimes thinking they open the containers  and start unloading and we're going uh who's   up is this at least it better be better  than our stuff if it's not our stuff so ah   yeah but again I mean at some point wouldn't  someone say hey whose crap is this and they   unload and then you know that some they want  to exchange it we hope it's it's gonna be there   um and again thank you so much for all your  help and prayers and pep talks about Nessa   yes she's really doing well cheers 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2022-11-03 19:44

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