My last confession was 11 days ago and these are my sins:
Looks like the mad big house rental thing is a goer, and we’ll hopefully pick up the keys on Monday.
We’re now on a ferry back to Ireland with V’s car packed full of all the stuff we didn’t take the first time. It was quite nice being back in Harrogate for a week as a kind of tourist – probably the best way of experiencing it, although we couldn’t be arsed to queue to get into Bettys.
Harlow Carr was as great as ever, and it was pleasing to see that they hadn’t built any more structures in the few weeks since our last visit – maybe they’ve got rid of all the trees they didn’t like now.
We got a quote back from the builder to renovate the property in Ireland. It’s about what we expected, which is to say “a lot”. Needs a bit of thought before we proceed, but it would be nice to get the roof watertight at least.