Updates as and when time is available.

We will try to update each month or now 2 months.

From September 2008

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November - December

Yes more picking, preserving. Start work outside on the vegetable patch preparing for the winter.

September - October

More picking, preserving. Finish the outside south side. Honey.

July - August

Picking, preserving. Finish the outside pointing.

 

May - June

Outside  planting, Bees, West and south area clean up.

 

March - April

Outside preparing for planting, Bees, Stone wall.

January - February 2016

Inside framing and plaster boarding conservatory. Outside trees and woods.

November - December 2015

Outside finishing off the stone moving and sorting the ground, chicken shed, container.

 

September - October  2015

Outside sorting stone, collecting firewood, preserving and build dry stone walls.

 

July - August 2015

Outside, picking and preserving. Sorting stone and beams, collecting firewood.

 

May - June 2015

Main kitchen finishing, gardens and stone. Bee's.

 

March - April 2015

Main kitchen still Gardens, clearing more land.

 

January - Febuary 2015

Main kitchen again internal walling, wiring, insulation and start on the gardens.

 

November - December 2014

Main kitchen internal walling, wiring, insulation and Christmas.

 

September-October 2014

Moving, decorating stating work in the next bit.

July - August 2014

Firewood, Mia on summer holiday, revamp of section we have been living in. 

 

May-June 2014

Planting everything, Pointing building outside walls and steps.

March-April 2014

Simple this time finish the south wall. Deal with trees from another storm.

January-February 2014

Christmas, South Wall, Main fireplace.

November - December 2013

South Wall, Preserves Gardens.

September - October 2013

Wall, Scaffolding and logs, but all going UP.

 

July-August 2013

Hot water in the kitchen, more BIG stone. Plenty of vegetables, chop the logs.

 

June 2013

Stairs, Kitchen, Wall and lots of gardening.

May 2013

Fruit cage, finishing the hallway, more soil to move, scaffolding the south wall.

April 2013

Easter with Mia, Hall plastering, paint. First grass cut. Planting everything!

March 2013

What a cold month but still lots done inside, Stud walling, insulation and plaster board.

February 2013

More snow, hall celling, out and about, lights and wiring. Working on the land.

January 2013

Drains, out and about with Mia, lintel up and in SNOW....

December 2012

Finish new log shed, clean up all floors in main house, window bars, Christmas....

 

November 2012

South wall, as far as we can go. New log shed, more and more and! more furniture.

October 2012

More work on the south wall, New cat, rotovate another area, Mia for holiday.

 September 2012

All out on the south wall, conseratory windows in after 20 years in storage. More stone cut, washed and placed.

 August 2012

Mia's Olympic park, More digging, plenty of fruit and vegetables. Many trips out.

 

July 2012

Lots more digging and dumping, clearing, moving rooms and Mia's start of the summer holidays.

June 2012

Cutting, growing, reaping.. a bit more demolishing and wiring.

 

May 2012

Green grass of home, car boot, more stone, plants for food, and a full house of insurance.

April 2012

Outside gardening, Mia, Tree house. Moving tons of soil and more stone.

March 2012

Outside gardening, moving and shifting celling finished.

February 2012

Leaded light windows. more celling, outside readying the south garden.

January 2012

Window sills, more celling, after the storms, more stone.

 

December 2011

Stained Glass out of the container, Main stove in, Conservatory windows and doors, Christmas tree.

November 2011

Conservatory stone walls, filling and sanding kitchen ceilings, clearing, steps.

October 2011

Conservatory roof. Visit by Mia, more doors, windows, and stone.

September 2011

Chimney pointed and finished, new additions to the family, up to the inside of the kitchen, start building the south wall.

August 2011

Finding the missing room, moving stuff, repairing a chimney.

July 2011

More preserving, selling, putting in widows in the roof, building the last of the north wall, vegetables and salad crops.

 

June 2011

Repairing the gables, covering the roof with slates, zinc guttering and treating the timbers.

May 2011

Holiday, Walls, Roof, Lintels, Birthday and Chapel.

April 2011

Lintels, window sills, chimney and GRASS!

March 2011

The north side wall on the main house going up. More stone to sort, and now  also gardening.

February 2011

Going up nearly at the finished height, clearing, windows and stone walls.

January 2011

More clearing and sorting. South first floor walls and floor go up. A bit of stain glass.

 

December 2010

Heating and it works, Snow and Snow, very cold. Concrete at last, walls for first floor.

 

November 2010

Cold now but on with the build of the main house, the link between it all, it seems such a long time since we knocked it down last August.

 

October 2010

 

Mushrooms, moving more wood and stone, starting the main building to link everything together.

September 2010

 

Even more pointing and sorting out the old beams.

Preparing for the winter. New shed, dry walling, painting and the next big thing for the winter.

August 2010

 

More pointing, steps a wedding in the UK.

Sorting out the old beams, phone wiring and installing a stove and another loo.

 

July 2010

 

On we go, finishing the office computer room, treating the loft. Some items out of the container at last. Finishing the covering the heating floor in the kitchen, dining room at last.

 

June 2010

 

Summer is here, office well on the way decorating, vegetables, more pointing, more wiring and woodwork.

 

May 2010

 

Summer is on the way, stud work, plasterboard, insulation, wiring and filling. Under floor insulation and pipe laying.

 

April 2010

 

Outside, Inside, Outside, pointing, concrete, walls, plaster board and gardens.

March 2010

 

Chimney down then up, Pipes, electrical conduits and then the new floors. Pointing and clearing more land.

 

February 2010

 

On with the roof, fill in the holes in the stone work, clear more land, sort out timber and stone.

January 2010

Roof has arrived so much to do!

December 2009

Two door ways to move and construct, roof stone supports to put in and SNOW!
November 2009 Two gable ends and floor in the workshop, looking forward to the roof in January.
October 2009 Continue to build. Kitchen, workshop benches, Polly tunnel now well underway.
September 2009 Continue to build. Kitchen and completing workshop roof.
August 2009 Starting to build. Kitchen and workshop.
July 2009 Roof 2 completed, on computer room  roof, finished pointing stone of the part we are in. Demolition of main building and started sorting out the stone.
June 2009 Roof 1 completed, started on on computer room  roof, pointing stone of the part we are in. Started on repair work to kitchen/dining room
May 2009 Started on on computer room renovation, roof and arrival of a new baby, well a small JCB.
April 2009 Spring is here....
Tractor, Chickens, Vegetable patch and blossom.
March 2009 Grape Vines sorted. Veg. Patch in. All Ivy cleared and burnt.
More clearing the land. Fruit trees in.
January - February  2009 Fosse in, wet but not disappointed, now fully working drainage system, goodbye dustbin.
More clearing the land.
December 2008 A date....
Inside ready for winter.
Ivy removal.
Finding windows.
More clearing the land.
October 2008 Final Planning.
Hot water.
Windows.
Log shed.
More clearing the land.
September 2008 Clearing the main house.
Container has arrived.
Where we are living.
Re-building the Chimney.
Clearing the land.
           
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