Restorations at The French Farmhouse and Riding out with you guys on Two Wheels!

追加: 2026-05-05

[00:00:03]I'm Chris and this is my French farmhouse restoration project.

[00:00:22]Good morning everybody.

[00:00:25]Right, kettle's well kettle the coffee machine's done.

[00:00:32]I am going to very quickly make some bread so that I've got bread for my lunch.

[00:00:38]I've got a busy day today. Very busy day because not only am I carrying on pointing the house, do a little bit more work on my um pointing. I'm going to do a little bit more work on restoring the garden furniture.

[00:00:53]And Alfie has asked me if I would take one of his motorcycles roadworthiness inspected which in France is called a control technique.

[00:01:03]So I got a busy day. So bread first shower and oh and I've got to do I have a workout. I like to have a workout in the morning. I like to do 15 minutes of exercise when I get up just to kind of charge me up for the day. So, I've got to do the bread first. Go and do me exercising, have a shower, do the wall. When I've done the wall, while it's drying, do my um patio furniture, and then when that's done, go and do the control technique and then come back and then finish off the wall.

[00:01:39]So, that's a nice busy day. And I can't guarantee I will be able to fit all that in and show you all that, but I'll do my best.

[00:01:49]Better get on with it.

[00:02:04]Stick those in there.

[00:02:20]out of tune guitar.

[00:02:23]I think my G string is going to break soon.

[00:02:37]So, for those of you that want to know how my day starts, this is how it starts. Exercise, coffee, and then guitar to to fresh out a few riffs for a little while while I contemplate what the day has in store for me.

[00:03:12]better go and get on with me work then ain't I?

[00:03:15]Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to my channel. I am exercised and invigorated now and uh I have got a little bit of bad news.

[00:03:28]Look what happened.

[00:03:31]Hold on. Let me get a better from yesterday's triumph in the garden. I'm learning the hard way about gardening.

[00:03:38]Look at this.

[00:03:41]Somebody ate it.

[00:03:46]I've come out to check it this morning and it's been eaten.

[00:03:52]Let me know who did that, please.

[00:04:01]Perfect.

[00:04:06]There we go.

[00:04:08]All good. The test, of course.

[00:04:13]Yes.

[00:04:15]Oh, yeah.

[00:04:17]Let's try a bit of this one, shall we?

[00:04:20]Oh, get in. That's lovely.

[00:04:24]Oh.

[00:04:26]Just a little bit and then get on with my work.

[00:04:36]Oh yeah, the butter's not melting.

[00:04:42]Quick clear up down here.

[00:04:46]So those pesky little vegetable thieves have been in my garden. Can you believe it? My very first pot plants coming through and somebody's eating them. I'm really annoyed. Let's call uh the French word of the day is um thief, which is a ver um a little has been in my garden and stolen all my blooming hard work.

[00:05:29]Let's start putting this on this. I'm just going to wet this down very quickly. I'm just I can win.

[00:06:08]I Right, I'm going to stick this last bit in this down here.

[00:06:53]Then we can just leave that to go off all day while we get on to other things.

[00:07:07]Things other things being I need to make my lunch because I'm starting to get hungry. This is hard work doing this as you can hear from me sounding puffed out, but I've kind of over the years got into a habit of doing it super fast. I try and get it all on.

[00:07:35]No messing about. Just get it all in there because the uh the magic is in the the wire brush part, not this part. This part is just important to pack it in everywhere. Make sure that it's in there, which is what I've done. All right, that is it. I'll clean this floor up, go and make some lunch. Right. Well, it's that part of the week where my fridge is almost empty, so I'm using up what's left. This is pine, which is slices of um uh basically bacon. Basically, uh streaky bacon, but it's all very nice.

[00:08:22]I'm going to have some streaky bacon in a very delicious scrambled eggs with cream and um cheese. And on the side, I'm going to have the remainder of my salad. That's what I'm doing.

[00:08:35]All I'm going to do is chop up all this quadrine.

[00:08:42]And then I'm going to use the uh the natural fats from within that to line my pan.

[00:08:56]Not going to add any extra. Look, it's got some nice tasty tasty fats in it.

[00:09:02]And the fats are good for you. Despite what people say, it is important to have a little bit of fat in your diet. Just don't don't abuse it. Simples.

[00:09:12]>> Alfie, you're on video. I'm making my lunch.

[00:09:16]Say hello to um my YouTube subscribers.

[00:09:23]>> Hello everyone. I'm making lunch. Not spaghetti.

[00:09:27]>> Oh, are you? I'm making um scrambled eggs with leftover pine and a piece of green pepper.

[00:09:37]Bit of that.

[00:09:39]What do you think, Alfie?

[00:09:43]Slap it on there.

[00:09:45]>> Mhm. I've got scrambled eggs and salad with little bits of uh pine in it.

[00:09:56]So, I'm going to quickly eat my lunch and then I got to get on with doing the patio set and then um take Alfie's bike to the control technique.

[00:10:09]Right, let's open this.

[00:10:15]Give it a stir up. I need to get a bit of a jiggle on because um I've got to take Alfie's motorcycle for its road test.

[00:10:27]It's quite noisy in my village today. I got people nearby doing gardening. Must have a must have friends visiting or something like that.

[00:10:39]Let's put a coat number two over this.

[00:10:43]I've just put my fingers in it there.

[00:10:44]Wally, I love this color.

[00:10:53]Right, start on chair number two.

[00:10:58]There we go.

[00:11:02]So, I've had two coats on the other chair.

[00:11:05]Let's get a couple of coats. Well, let's get coat number one on this.

[00:11:13]Now, I am aware that I could spray this, but I don't really want to spray and have all that blooming awful paint floating around in out in the air.

[00:11:29]Now, I Oh, had a lovely lunch today. That was so tasty.

[00:11:58]Thoroughly enjoyed that.

[00:12:08]Here we go. Chair number two has had its first coat and chair number one is on its second coat. Next stop, actually I missed a bit there. Look. Oh goodness.

[00:12:25]Next stop, I'm going to get the wood to make the slats and um get them fixed up.

[00:12:31]Then we can just uh paint the table.

[00:12:35]And we got ourselves a nice fresh new uh cafe set.

[00:12:40]Right. Well, best laid plans, etc. I wanted to get other things done today, but my son has asked me to help him with his motorcycle.

[00:12:56]So, now I'm going to stop what I'm doing and ride his bike over to the test center.

[00:13:04]And this is my cross aer lid.

[00:13:09]I look like a policeman today.

[00:13:17]Best bit about this one.

[00:13:22]Yeah. Now I feel like a jet pilot.

[00:13:37]So, this is Alfie's bike behind me and um I've just that's I've never ridden it before and now I'm tasked with taking it for its uh road test and I do not like it. I don't ride motorbikes like that at all. um that style of bike I've never ridden and um I'm not feeling it at all. I don't know what the clutch is like. I don't know anything about the gear box. I don't know about the power. Um but what I'm going to do is we'll go for a little bike ride together, shall we?

[00:14:14]Let's have a little look at the scenery um from my view on the bike.

[00:14:50]or we're in down. I think I'm a little bit early, so I might have to park this bike and go find myself a uh a drink of some description.

[00:15:03]I don't actually know this town very well, so uh I'm going to need to look around for the bar.

[00:15:18]Well, I've arrived.

[00:15:25]Let's take a quick look at the sticker on the back of my crash helmet, shall we?

[00:15:34]Um, it didn't come with that sticker. I I found it and I thought, "Ah, that'll go good on the back of my lid."

[00:15:42]Well, I've just got back and there she is. And no, she didn't pass. It needs uh bits and pieces done to it and it has to go back again. And I won't be taking it back. He can do it himself because that is a horrible bike. I don't like it.

[00:16:37]Well, you can hear from the birds doing their evening call that it is getting late. I said I could I wasn't sure I could fit it all in, but um I really wanted to fit the whole day in and I feel like I've I've just got this little bit to go and I've succeeded in showing you my whole day. And it basically starts with getting up, having my breakfast, preparing what I'm going to do for the day, um getting it all done. Very important to me to kind of achieve my goals on my list and uh and and documenting it via YouTube so you guys can see it as well.

[00:17:30]And I it's a very good it's very good motivation for me to have goals like that. I really like it when I set myself the task of doing certain things in a day. That that that's good. And this is a good example. You know, I wanted to I wanted to get my garden furniture painted a little bit. I wanted to get a little bit more on this of this lime work done, which I'm literally inches away from finishing at sundown.

[00:18:02]I don't know if that shows on on camera, but uh the sun will be going down very soon. And then obviously I can't do this, but it's just uh an obsession I have with completion.

[00:18:16]I cannot tell you how much I like doing my YouTube channel. And I this community that I've got, let me just uh say when I started work at Land, I didn't know there was I didn't even know about YouTube and all these channels and stuff like that. And uh Stephanie introduced me to that because of my my work there. And um I feel like the community that I've got now is my community. you know, you guys get on there and you chat to me in the comment section and you give me great advice and you you're very um caring about my well-being and ah there's just so many lovely lovely aspects to what happens with my YouTube channel and as a single man living in quite a remote part of France um apart from my work and you know socializing sometimes with people with friends. Having having the um having the YouTube channel and having you lot to interact with is absolutely amazing. I love it. I absolutely love it. I look forward to it every night when I finish my video and then I upload it and then I do my live because I always do a live premiere now whenever I do a video. So, it's it goes out at um round about between 11:00 p.m.

[00:19:48]and midnight France time. That's what I aim for. And then I just sit there like I'm going to the movies. It's like going to the cinema. I get all excited and I'm sat on my I'm sat on my uh sofa in front of my in front of my MacBook to chat to you all and uh and I really really love it. So, and that that's what I'll be doing tonight as well. So, I'm just going to finish this very last bit of this wall. As you can see, these stones clean up really nice. I'm just going to do this very last bit here and then I'm going to say thank you all. Thank you all for subscribing and for liking and hyping and all of the um amazing comments that you send me every day. And I will see you in the very next video where this is going to be finished and we'll get more done around my um round my farmhouse and my farmyard.

[00:20:57]See you very soon.

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