General
Home from the holiday
We were in Harrogate for the week, so checked out our favourite places and revelled in the order and comfort of our house. Favourite places in Harrogate: Bean and Bud cafe. The best coffee in […]
General
Festival of Writing and Ideas
We went to Carlow (south-east Ireland) for the weekend of the 10th June as there was the http://festivalofwritingandideas.com/ on, and quite a few interesting-sounding speakers. The first talk we attended was with Mary Robinson (former president of […]
House
Got plastered
The main room has been plastered now – the external walls were dry lined first to help out a bit. It looks much smarter, but we now need to wait another week for the plaster […]
Uncategorised
Stacking work stacking up
We’re only half-way through turf-stacking still – it’s hard work, unfortunately. We’re getting better at it, but at the moment it’s unlikely that either of us would be up for participating in the destruction of […]
Bog
More progress
We now have a bed and a washing machine. Tremendous improvement all round. The washing machine took me ages to find – I wanted one that would work fine gravity-fed from the header tank 3 […]
Bog
Saving turf is hard work
As soon as the turf has been cut by the machine, it’s sitting in long snakes in the wind and sun, forming a crust on the outside. It then needs to be divided into sods, […]
Bog
Say we can, say we will / not just another drop in the ocean…
The cutter arrived yesterday… I was sat minding my own business in the house, then heard a tremendous rumbling noise approaching. At first, I thought it was a helicopter landing, but having dashed around to […]
Bog
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One week until moving in…
We worked hard on the house again today, then went for a walk in the ‘garden’. It’s so undulating that it’s like a workout on a stepper (probably, not that I’ve ever tried that to […]
House
Caught up in your wishing well
The verdict from the pump engineer was that the well wasn’t Wet Wet Wet enough (an appalling reference to the post title), and they were keen for us to look into getting another one drilled. […]