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Join us as we share the highs, lows, and unforgettable moments of living in a historic French château.
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Would We Buy This Château Again? (opens the original)
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In this episode of Inside the Château, we ask a question that sounds simple until you actually try to answer it: are we living the life we thought we wanted?We talk about leaving London, losing our business during Covid, buying the château, and the strange gap between the fantasy of a life and the reality of living it every day. There are also forged parking permits, too many antique beds, Lionel’s longing for a first-class ticket anywhere, strong opinions on tasting menus, expensive paint, came
We Counted The Rooms And Immediately Regretted It (opens the original)
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This week’s podcast begins with Claire covered in paint, Lionel asking dangerous questions, and the slow realisation that choosing one bedroom colour is difficult enough before you remember there are roughly twenty-four other rooms waiting patiently behind it.We chat about being bored of DIY, Château DIY arriving to film at exactly the wrong moment, swallows causing chaos in the bedroom, French versus British drinking habits, Alexa accidentally joining the audience, a coffee machine with unreaso
We’re Not Living in a Museum, Lionel Finally Snapped Over a Light Switch (opens the original)
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This week on Inside the Château, a perfectly innocent viewer question about white sockets sends Lionel into a surprisingly passionate defence of modern electrics, personal taste, and why we have absolutely no intention of turning our home into a museum.We also chat about Monty the mower’s growing personality, whether robots deserve tea breaks, the impossible business of finding curtains, five years of living at the château, why we need to escape the place occasionally to appreciate it properly,
Americans Keep Calling Us “Cute”… We Finally Found Out Why (opens the original)
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It turns out that being called “cute” can cause a surprising amount of confusion when you are British.This week, we are under the tree at the château, with the dogs demanding carrots and Margaux attempting to dig her way to China, when we fall into a rather unexpected conversation about the things our American viewers say to us. Apparently, “cute” does not mean quite what Lionel thought it meant… and Claire may have been using “lovely” in ways she should perhaps investigate.From posh voices and
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