Tuesday 21 December 2010




Winter has settled in around us with its extremes of beauty and damaging and deadly cold. We have seen it well below -10 here on occasion over the past 2 weeks.

Monday 20 December 2010




Well, the house is up and inhabited! We have a lodger and are seeing how the building likes winter! The exceptionally heavy snow caused some gutter damage and the low temperatures revealed a weak spot in the water supply to house which is easily remedied. Other than that, the project can be deemed to have been completed well. Thanks to Rob, (architect) Arthur (builder)and his doughty team.

Friday 11 June 2010

Friday 7 May 2010

Day 46 Fri 7th May






Posts are happening less frequently now because there are fewer changes of dramatic proportions. This is where we got to this week! However the putting in of the insulation is a dusty wearisome task as the stuff has to be cut to size and then jammed in between timbers.

Monday 3 May 2010

Saturday 1 May 2010

Day 41 Friday 30 April




It's more difficult to see dramatic changes on a day by day basis, but the inside is slowly being licked into shape, or getting plastered!

Sunday 25 April 2010

Day 36 Fri 23 April




The focus of the work is transferring indoors although there are still things to be done externally. We are into the season of choosing kitchen furniture and tiles etc etc. It's obviously not enough that we are also getting married in two weeks time. How do you add a smiley to these blogs? f

Wednesday 21 April 2010

Day 34 Wed 21 April







Cabling days, inside and out! Flooring started too! And time for tea at the builder's retreat too.

Sunday 18 April 2010

Rannoch Moor





As a diversion, here is where I was on Friday!! The vast expanse of Rannoch Moor was a good place to test my Garmin Etrex and my map reading skills.

Saturday 17 April 2010

Day 31 Fri 16 April





Well the team are having their whole weekend this time. The internal partitions are starting to go up and we can see how the rooms are going to work.

Thursday 15 April 2010

Day 30 Thurs 15 April





Inside is taking rapid shape. Ross was getting the first of the inside walls up towards the end of the day. Andy managed to finish the bric work on the near gable end. Well done guys. I see the child entertainment service is working well too.

Wednesday 14 April 2010



Not much happening on the outside today, apart from sills going under the windows. On the inside insulation was being put up on the walls. Arthur was looking a bit vacant until he realised I was on the prowl with my camera! He told me that Beth and Scott and Paul enjoy looking at pictures of him at work, but these are very very hard to come by. I'll try and persuade him to pick up a hammer and hand it to someone next time he comes.

Tuesday 13 April 2010

Day 28 Tues 13 April





The Granny Flat is becoming an accepted part of the garden landscape. I saw a jackdaw settle on it this evening. Hopefully they won't move in before we have!

Monday 12 April 2010

Day 26 Sunday April 11th



Chris decided he needed to come in over the weekend to get on with slating the roof as he goes on holiday on Tuesday. Thankfully the weather was brilliant.