This week I am feeling a little better than I have recently, my back is a great deal better thankfully so I am in a position where I can do more to help Cat out with the house. I am determined to do something little every day this week while she is away working, bite… Continue reading Bite sized pieces
Category: Exterior
Lime wash issues
Cat is back for the weekend and is straight back onto lime washing the walls in Zanna’s bedroom. The walls are looking very patchy, more patchy than they should we think. Lime wash isn’t a flat paint finish like modern paints, yet we are not sure we have quite got the technique right. The paler… Continue reading Lime wash issues
Archaeology
Another super cold snow day, so I waste some time sorting through our garden finds. It’s amazing how much of the pottery goes together, I even pieced some bits together like a jigsaw. Much of this was found near the house and under the study window. Apparently when things got broken they were literally thrown… Continue reading Archaeology
Snow day
Seven months and a day after we started the renovations, I woke up to a covering of snow along with the freezing fog that is still covering the village. The gate lock is frozen so I left it locked and had a ‘snow day’. Sunny June seems a long way away right now. Good to… Continue reading Snow day
Lockdown 3.0
It’s been a very quiet week. Cat’s back in Bristol until the weekend, it’s far too cold for Tom and George to return to finish, I am really suffering with my back still and now the country has gone into a third lockdown. The iced up padlock on the gate today seems very fitting. Not… Continue reading Lockdown 3.0
Winding down for Xmas
Today it rained and rained and rained so Tom and George arrived and left soon after, although George did brush down the mortar that wasn’t too wet before he went. George will be back tomorrow morning to do the same. Another cracking photo of Cat (sorry). She has tackled the kitchen and I wish I… Continue reading Winding down for Xmas
Smash it up, smash it up
This is what I found when unlocking the house this morning… We had leant the stone for the steps against the neighbours wall (that Tom rebuilt last week) so that Cat could jet wash them at the weekend, but the wall was still intact yesterday. It was a stormy night with gusty winds, so I… Continue reading Smash it up, smash it up
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
The return of the dust monster II
We thought we had seen the last of the dust monster but no! The sun’s out, the doors are open (ah!!) and everything is getting covered in dust… Tom is working through the pile of stone and cutting the really big pieces using the angle grinder and the axe. This is a massive piece of… Continue reading The return of the dust monster II