Cadeaux at the Chateau

Today we have a special guest opening gifts with us Michael Petherick from Doing It Ourselves is at the Chateau de Lalande, and he s opening the presents that lovely people have sent for him here In Cadeaux at the Chateau, all of the inhabitants of the Chateau de Lalande gather together to open beautiful gifts that people have sent from all over the world. All of the monetisation from these videos will be donated to a different charity each month. For the month of August, 2020, we chose Alzheimer s Research, and have sent 630 in memory of all of the residents of the nursing homes that I grew up in. I used to show the gifts as part of The Chateau Diaries episodes, but you re all so very generous that we have many gifts, and if we spent the episodes opening them, we wouldn t be able to show you other aspects of chateau life So, for those of you who enjoy watching presents being opened, and as a way to thank those of you who were kind enough to s