The Truth After 20 Years Together

After 20 years together, you’d think we’d have a simple answer to the question: do we ever actually fight? This week, the Spoon of Truth gets slightly more dangerous than usual as we answer your questions about what we’re really like off camera, who the better cook is, what we still miss from Britain, and whether life at the château ever pushes us into a proper quarrel. Conveniently, the château then provides a live demonstration involving heat, plasterboard, questionable YouTube advice, a wonky wall, and Lionel’s extremely confident “helping.” Claire does her best to remain cheerful. Lionel does his best to remain employed. There’s also rain, a brolly, a very British moment of sitting outside getting wet, and a little escape to La Rochelle to celebrate 20 years since our first date. So yes, the wall stayed up. And yes, so did we. 👉 PATREON If you would like to help keep the lights on, the cameras rolling, and two slightly over-ambitious château owners out of trouble, our PATREON community makes this life possible   / ourchateaulife   👉 BUY US A COFFEE Prefer a one-off way to support the adventure? BUY US A COFFEE and help fund the glorious chaos, questionable decisions and next chapter at the château. https://buymeacoffee.com/ourchateaulife 👉 AMAZON WISHLIST Many of you have kindly asked how you can help us here at the château. We’ve added an Amazon Wishlist with a few useful things for the house, garden, dogs and filming. There is never any obligation, but every thoughtful gift is hugely appreciated and genuinely helps. https://ourchateaulife.com/wishlist 👉 This isn't really a renovation project. It's a life. Today's episode is just one page of a much bigger story. 👉 Leave us a comment. We read them all, and some of our best conversations begin there. 👉 Join us again. The château will almost certainly have found a new way to surprise us by then. 👉 Follow along so you never miss a chapter in the ongoing adventures of Lionel, Claire, Mimi, Margaux and the rest of the cast. 👉 Between episodes, you'll find the bits we couldn't fit into the vlog on INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK and TIKTOK: @ourchateaulife 👉 Our website: https://www.ourchateaulife.com If you've only just found us... Where have you been? Want more? This is a good place to start:    • Start Here / Meet Lionel & Claire   Chapters: 00:00 The Spoon, the Splodge and a Suspicious Amount of Truth 00:48 Claire Finds a Sit-Down Job in the Heat 02:03 The Spoon of Truth Makes Its Debut 04:22 A New Skill Is Acquired, Apparently 05:45 Do Lionel and Claire Ever Actually Quarrel? 08:21 The Plasterboard Fits First Time… Honest 09:14 Very English, Very Wet, Very Committed 09:30 Lionel Demonstrates the Sacred Flicking Technique 12:50 The Better Cook Is Revealed Without Much Debate 14:01 Claire Says She Loves DIY, and Nobody Believes Her 15:21 The British Things They Still Miss 16:10 The Moment the Wall Decides Whether to Stay 17:11 Ten Million Euros and One Very Sensible Learjet 18:13 Twenty Years Since the First Date 20:09 Bon Jovi, Storytellers and the Dream DIY Assistant 22:12 The Spoon of Truth Signs Off, Slightly Sodden