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It’s now, what August 2016? The roof only went on in July. Until then it had become an abandoned build since Nov 15. The wet got wetter and the mud got muddier. It was impossible to continue, despite the best efforts of some amazing and stalwart friends. All winter I would wake up anxious asContinue reading “Just read the last entry I wrote which was way back in Sept 2015. I have to admire my own optimism that I really thought there was a chance we would be in by Xmas 15.”

Knee deep in squidgy mud we managed to take out and refit the window. A bit scary at some points as our boots were sucked further and further down into the bog, trying to keep our balance while juggling a large, wobbly window.  It was really satisfying  to start getting some cladding up and makingContinue reading “Glad clad”

Day two at the building site….AKA The Quagmire.Oh how there have been moments when I wish we were doing this in Cataluyna . Please note Sue!Hope your project is going swimmingly too!    

Wrapped cabin . But where’s the caravan?  

Feel like  we  are starting to make progress again, now that Adrian and Mary  are here working with us. Mary and I spent the day wrapping the cabin and started putting insulation in. Paul and Adrian started putting the rafters up. We were in a quagmire by the end of  a very wet, cold andContinue reading “Next Stage”

The owls have just come out and the farmer is still busy trying to get the hay in. The light has now changed to blue sky pink and the birds are still singing.      

Just had  the stumps removed from all the wind blown.Two giant piles of them. Radical…Did consider for a nano second whether to compete with Prince Charles and create a giant stump rockery, but thought better of it and have an amazing November fifth instead. The amount of “empty” space is amazing. Hard to imagine thatContinue reading