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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Yes more picking, preserving. Start work outside on the vegetable patch preparing for the winter. |
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More picking, preserving. Finish the outside south side. Honey. |
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Picking, preserving. Finish the outside pointing. |
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Outside planting, Bees, West and south area clean up. |
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Outside preparing for planting, Bees, Stone wall. |
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Inside framing and plaster boarding conservatory. Outside trees and woods. |
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Outside finishing off the stone moving and sorting the ground, chicken shed, container. |
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Outside sorting stone, collecting firewood, preserving and build dry stone walls. |
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Outside, picking and preserving. Sorting stone and beams, collecting firewood. |
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Main kitchen finishing, gardens and stone. Bee's. |
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Main kitchen still Gardens, clearing more land. |
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Main kitchen again internal walling, wiring, insulation and start on the gardens. |
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Main kitchen internal walling, wiring, insulation and Christmas. |
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Moving, decorating stating work in the next bit. |
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Firewood, Mia on summer holiday, revamp of section we have been living in. |
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Planting everything, Pointing building outside walls and steps. |
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Simple this time finish the south wall. Deal with trees from another storm. |
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Christmas, South Wall, Main fireplace. |
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South Wall, Preserves Gardens. |
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Wall, Scaffolding and logs, but all going UP. |
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Hot water in the kitchen, more BIG stone. Plenty of vegetables, chop the logs. |
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Stairs, Kitchen, Wall and lots of gardening. |
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Fruit cage, finishing the hallway, more soil to move, scaffolding the south wall. |
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Easter with Mia, Hall plastering, paint. First grass cut. Planting everything! |
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What a cold month but still lots done inside, Stud walling, insulation and plaster board. |
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More snow, hall celling, out and about, lights and wiring. Working on the land. |
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Drains, out and about with Mia, lintel up and in SNOW.... |
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Finish new log shed, clean up all floors in main house, window bars, Christmas.... |
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South wall, as far as we can go. New log shed, more and more and! more furniture. |
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More work on the south wall, New cat, rotovate another area, Mia for holiday. |
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All out on the south wall, conseratory windows in after 20 years in storage. More stone cut, washed and placed. |
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Mia's Olympic park, More digging, plenty of fruit and vegetables. Many trips out. |
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Lots more digging and dumping, clearing, moving rooms and Mia's start of the summer holidays. |
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Cutting, growing, reaping.. a bit more demolishing and wiring. |
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Green grass of home, car boot, more stone, plants for food, and a full house of insurance. |
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Outside gardening, Mia, Tree house. Moving tons of soil and more stone. |
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Outside gardening, moving and shifting celling finished. |
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Leaded light windows. more celling, outside readying the south garden. |
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Window sills, more celling, after the storms, more stone. |
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Stained Glass out of the container, Main stove in, Conservatory windows and doors, Christmas tree. |
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Conservatory stone walls, filling and sanding kitchen ceilings, clearing, steps. |
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Conservatory roof. Visit by Mia, more doors, windows, and stone. |
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Chimney pointed and finished, new additions to the family, up to the inside of the kitchen, start building the south wall. |
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Finding the missing room, moving stuff, repairing a chimney. |
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More preserving, selling, putting in widows in the roof, building the last of the north wall, vegetables and salad crops. |
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Repairing the gables, covering the roof with slates, zinc guttering and treating the timbers. |
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Holiday, Walls, Roof, Lintels, Birthday and Chapel. |
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Lintels, window sills, chimney and GRASS! |
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The north side wall on the main house going up. More stone to sort, and now also gardening. |
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Going up nearly at the finished height, clearing, windows and stone walls. |
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More clearing and sorting. South first floor walls and floor go up. A bit of stain glass. |
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Heating and it works, Snow and Snow, very cold. Concrete at last, walls for first floor. |
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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. |
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Mushrooms, moving more wood and stone, starting the main building to link everything together. |
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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. |
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More pointing, steps a wedding in the UK. Sorting out the old beams, phone wiring and installing a stove and another loo. |
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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. | ![]() |
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Summer is here, office well on the way decorating, vegetables, more pointing, more wiring and woodwork. | ![]() |
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Summer is on the way, stud work, plasterboard, insulation, wiring and filling. Under floor insulation and pipe laying. | ![]() |
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Outside, Inside, Outside, pointing, concrete, walls, plaster board and gardens. | ![]() |
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Chimney down then up, Pipes, electrical conduits and then the new floors. Pointing and clearing more land. | ![]() |
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On with the roof, fill in the holes in the stone work, clear more land, sort out timber and stone. | ![]() |
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| Two door ways to move and construct, roof stone supports to put in and SNOW! | ![]() |
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| November 2009 | Two gable ends and floor in the workshop, looking forward to the roof in January. | ![]() |
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| October 2009 | Continue to build. Kitchen, workshop benches, Polly tunnel now well underway. | ![]() |
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| September 2009 | Continue to build. Kitchen and completing workshop roof. | ![]() |
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| August 2009 | Starting to build. Kitchen and workshop. | ![]() |
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| 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. | ![]() |
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| 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 | ![]() |
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| May 2009 | Started on on computer room renovation, roof and arrival of a new baby, well a small JCB. | ![]() |
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| April 2009 | Spring is here.... Tractor, Chickens, Vegetable patch and blossom. |
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| March 2009 | Grape Vines sorted. Veg. Patch
in. All Ivy cleared and burnt. More clearing the land. Fruit trees in. |
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| January - February 2009 | Fosse in, wet but not
disappointed, now fully working drainage system, goodbye dustbin. More clearing the land. |
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| December 2008 | A date.... Inside ready for winter. Ivy removal. Finding windows. More clearing the land. |
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| October 2008 | Final Planning. Hot water. Windows. Log shed. More clearing the land. |
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| September 2008 | Clearing the main house. Container has arrived. Where we are living. Re-building the Chimney. Clearing the land. |
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