Back to it

I have finally (we found these 5-6 months ago now) sorted through all the old newspapers, cleaned them with a soft brush, flattened them out as best I can and put them into the archive file in date order. There is a load of historic wallpaper that we found too but they are in the… Continue reading Back to it

Xmas not at Pear Tree

We were originally supposed to be back in the house around September/October, but when it was apparent that wasn’t going to happen our next deadline was Christmas… That has now come and gone too sadly but we did cook the turkey in the oven at Pear Tree Cottage. We accidentally purchased an enormous turkey from… Continue reading Xmas not at Pear Tree

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Fitting the old shutters

Way back in the summer when Glynn started repairing this sitting room window, he discovered that what we thought were wooden panels on the side of the window recess were in fact old shutters that had been nailed open, so we decided we would renovate them and get them working again. With the movement of… Continue reading Fitting the old shutters

New plumber

Last night the York stone for our steps was delivered in the dark by Mark from Warwick Reclamation, so this morning I was able to see it. They need a good scrub but they are perfect. This is where the steps will go up from the old front door to the garden. The York stone… Continue reading New plumber

Build a wall

Tom is building the retaining wall for the front garden, another exciting point as the garden will look less like a building site and more like a garden again. A huge piece of the Hornton blue that Tom cut yesterday. You can see how hard it is from the marks made by the angle grinder.… Continue reading Build a wall

One step beyond

Saturday morning, Cat is back for the weekend and we are at Warwick Reclamation looking for stone steps. We need two front door steps and two steps to go from the front path up to the garden, to be built into the new retaining wall. Mark, who was super helpful, spent a long time with… Continue reading One step beyond