The Chateau Diaries #331 PhiPhi is squirreling the place up one cache-pot at a time

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Billy, isn’t Freeling the author of the Van der Valk series? I read him at uni, a guilty pleasure for a small town gay boy just figuring out the world.
Yes, his 60s Van der Valk mysteries really are a primer for many of us on the grooviness (and avarice, just reading about genocides of the Dutch East Indian Company) of the Dutch and their ancient hatreds (Flems and Walloons, sheesh). After Van der Valk and his widow, Arlette, also fab, Freeling had a French tec, Henri Castang, all we need to know about the grooviness of the Napoleonic Code and its police/justice system, determinedly different from anything Anglo Saxon. (The French look like us, but they're not like us. In the Castang novels, Freeling takes up where Maurice Pagnol left off, in pursuit of the permutations of the various bad Frenchie characters. Stephanie is right to call Isabelle Mummy des Sources.) And he's so observant, humane, and worldly, with, as I said, a penchant for centering his tales around deeply creepy adult crimes. No dumb American bang bang.
 
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@marcellalessard
8 hours ago
I am new to your site and I don’t understand why you don’t heat!


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@carolinegooder7091
3 hours ago
All these kinds of Chateaux were built for use in summer and not winter. The heating company put in the new boilers in the old workshop and equipment in the laundry. Amaury put fireproofing walls around the equipment. He put a vent into the roof up into the Tack room. Amaury then put the vent up through the Tack room roof. The inspector has to sign off on the boiler room now
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@carolinegooder7091
3 hours ago
Once the inspection of Amaury's work on the boiler room is done, then lots of the ceilings will get new vents to use the new boiler equipment. The new wood stoves have to be used now. The few floors with electrical heating need to be turned on, and Amaury's is insulating bedrooms as they redecorate them

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@carolinegooder7091
2 hours ago (edited)
All the equipment was put into the old workshop room. Then, a subcontractor fell off a roof last year and died. Amaury built a fireproof room around the equipment and started work on its venting. He put a vent through the roof up into the Tack room and then through the roof of the Tack room. An inspection has to be done of this venting system. Then, the heating company can put tons of vents in the ceilings.

SusanHansen-ed9cd
10 hours ago
Where is Michael’s girlfriend?
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@karenlynn7731
10 hours ago
$500K spent on the chapel. Yes, it is beautiful. But a half million dollars later and there is STILL no heat in the chateau. How do people choose to live like this? Isabel & Percy should not even be there when there is not adequate heating & now Isabel is sick. She truly needs to go to the doctor. And maybe home to Africa where there is heat & no drafts in the house.
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@kellylaliberte548
21 hours ago
I don't know if you've discussed this before - i think you said the chapel was still consecrated and i wondered if the local church authorities were aware of your restoration and if they took any interest in it.

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@carolinegooder7091
20 hours ago
Stephanie said that she is arranging with the local city hall to let locals have access to the chapel during the Christmas advent.

@YM-rt1jy
7 hours ago
@carolinegooder7091 Local city halls (Mairies) have nothing to do with churches or chapels. In France, Church authorities and State authorities, local and national, are strictly separated (laïcité).
 
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On the video of the chapel ... :rolleyes:

@yummboy2
1 hour ago
It is a splendid chapel and a historic work of art which is in need of restoration and preservation. Funding for its revival has come entirely from individuals all over the world who appreciate its architecture, beauty and uniqueness. If not for the generosity and devotion of such individuals, this magnificent structure would have continued to decay and be forgotten. They deserve recognition and appreciation for all they have given.

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@matheusasmarques
1 hour ago
In the comments, perfidious people, spreaders of fake news, slanderers. And you still desecrate the memory of a dog. Haters are always envious people. People can finance any private project they want. Cry as much as you want.
 
Thank you sweetheart. The castle was closed today, but they had some school activities happening, as they so often do, so he must have been from one of their parties. Its horrific to think he might have been a teacher! No doubt the PSNI (police services Northern Ireland) will be keeling a close eye on his future activities... once he gets out of hospital. 😁
What a horrible thing to happen to you. So glad the police told him what a dick he was too.
Give your hubby a kiss from me.
 
When they sell the Dump, no dedications will follow the star rentals except in their mInds. The book will be tossed within 7 years, no one will be allowed to enter the private property of the new owner. There will be no permanent record of their star rental. Pottie is now hastily trying to take photos of the stars so star rental buyers can have an image of the star that they temporarily leased and the dump crew can keep over $500,000 to $600,000 and easterly pursue more rental schemes. Telling that it has taken them months to come up with a weak ” explanation” that doesn’t address the fact that the rentals will only be publicly available on the website for now up to six more years. Cheap con artists. There is no permanent or long term public record of the dedications. They are selling nothing as usual. Interesting that they refuse to extend maintenance of a website for another decade or so, which shouldn’t be too difficult considering two out of three dump owners work in IT/ website designs. You notice that Stephanie makes no mention that they were on the dump for decades to come so any dedications or visitors to visit the “dedicated “ stars may be honored. Stephanie Jarvis will always be a scammer and a pathological liar, every day, all day.
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She definitely set up the CD videos featuring illness so she could freely travel undetected for a weeklong vacation or so. She think she is so sneaky but IMHO, she is just a common thief.
I hope all the star adopters will turn up at the same time to see their stars and ask for a tour of the chateau. Yes, I doubt if anyone has considered what will happen if she sells the dump. There's no way a future owner would allow a load of star adopters in. I think most of the fans believe they are contributing to a historic French building saved in the public interest. They could not be more mistaken.
 
Yes, his 60s Van der Valk mysteries really are a primer for many of us on the grooviness (and avarice, just reading about genocides of the Dutch East Indian Company) of the Dutch and their ancient hatreds (Flems and Walloons, sheesh). After Van der Valk and his widow, Arlette, also fab, Freeling had a French tec, Henri Castang, all we need to know about the grooviness of the Napoleonic Code and its police/justice system, determinedly different from anything Anglo Saxon. (The French look like us, but they're not like us. In the Castang novels, Freeling takes up where Maurice Pagnol left off, in pursuit of the permutations of the various bad Frenchie characters. Stephanie is right to call Isabelle Mummy des Sources.) And he's so observant, humane, and worldly, with, as I said, a penchant for centering his tales around deeply creepy adult crimes. No dumb American bang bang.
I remember having to actually think and use my analytical abilities when reading them, which was catnip to me. I was raised in a family where if you didn’t know something you were sent to the dictionary, thesaurus and/or encyclopedia to learn about it. We would be expected to be able to discuss the subject at dinner that evening.
 
I’m watching Max Velocity on YouTube. I can’t believe how many tornados Florida is getting. Stay safe everyone! ❤
Here is the link if any tattlers want to watch. He has good info and some great coverage.



Poor little birds get caught in the hurricanes.

 
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Didn't Fanny herself vlog an identical chapel nearby? This proves the dump chapel is not unique! Also I do wonder how the family really feel about the monument to a lost child being glorified by thousands of Frozen fans.
How did they feel about Stephanie desecrating a chapel built in the memory of a small child, a family member, who drowned in the moat? You have stupid chamber potty swimming in the moat wearing a tired black hat as a personality substitute, vapid Stephanie floating on a blowup swan in the boat for pretentious photo shoot, loser Baghead wandering around with a bag on his head, BDSM photo shoots in the chapel, treating the chapel as a debauched party pad and dining hall, using the altar as a buffet, using the chalice in the chapel for sacrilegious purposes and is objects in stupid games, and then exploiting, manipulating, and twisting the history of the Marquis and family at every turn in order to exploit and monetize the family and their history history to dupe viewers into scams, views, and filling Stephanie and her 2 previous boyfriends/co-owners begging bowls to fund their hedonistic lifestyles. Stephanie hit an all time low When she started speculation about where the deceased five year old who drowned in the moat was buried, implying that it could be underneath the chapel, as she roamed the local graveyard searching for the child’s grave.

She has claimed that Henri the ghost approves of the way in which she has been managing/ changing the dump and took an ordinary run-of-the-mill pool table left behind by the family of the Marquis and had it restored by the same company that restored a pool table at Versailles. She is crazy. She took the apartment of the Marquis, which was a simple apartment, defeating the farmhouse, and turned it into a low rent brocante version of what she perceives the dump would’ve been like if it was a mini Versailles ( which is was not and is not) .

I am sure that the family at the Marquis dislike her and only begrudgingly deal with her so they can rent the property for a week or two a year for their family gatherings. Remember the last time they did so, and Stephanie had to leave the premises?She will exploit anyone one, any animal, or any object to make $$$$$$$ for herself. $$$$$$$$$ is her only god.
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You know what bothers me about these weather channels are some of the storm chaser guys that are featured that act like they are at some type of a fun party, gleeful, laughing, joking, screaming and yelling in excitement when entire power grids short out, cars are submerged, trees are uprooted, signs roll across the road, tornadoes crush towns, waters flood homes, destroys piers or boats, busnesses, devastate communities, etc.

They seem to believe they are at some huge party and they don’t seem to understand or appreciate that the lives, homes, businesses, and livelihoods of thousands of people and animals are being severely impacted, harmed, or destroyed. They seem kind of callous and devoid of empathy. I wish that the major forecasters who run their own channels, if possible, could be a little more selective about some of the storm chasing people they feature on their YouTube channels or teach them how to have a little bit of respect or decorum when filming or performing reporting their findings.
 
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Thank you! 😘 I'm delighted and grateful you've taken the time to type this out. Everyone should take a screen shot of this carrot cake recipe right now! 😋 Imperial measurements - no problem! It's for Mr. Io to figure out as the kitchen is his domain. I only ever go in there when I need a drink... or a knife. 😉 😉 😉

Look! More chateau idiots! The maddness is contagious.

Oh dear! Reminds me of Mike Leighs Abigail from Abigail's Party! 🙂
 
@karenlynn7731
10 hours ago
$500K spent on the chapel. Yes, it is beautiful. But a half million dollars later and there is STILL no heat in the chateau. How do people choose to live like this? Isabel & Percy should not even be there when there is not adequate heating & now Isabel is sick. She truly needs to go to the doctor. And maybe home to Africa where there is heat & no drafts in the house.
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No you uneducated numpty, it's Euros. Half a million EUROS. The chateau is in France. The French currency is the Euro.
 
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