After a freezing cold night we had a blizzard Sunday morning and 2 inches of snow came down in about an hour! Even the cement mixer looks pretty. Cat has lit the wood burner in the sitting room to keep the house warm today. Last night we lent all the oil heaters to a neighbour… Continue reading Snow Sunday
Category: Stairs & Landing
Beam cleaning (again)
In a much needed boost to moral, Cat has help today from Colin who is here to assist with the big clean up process of the beams and stone chimney breast on the stairs and landing. Colin is good on ladders, Cat is not, so his help is massively appreciated here! Starting from the top… Continue reading Beam cleaning (again)
Choosing colours (again)
So it’s back to the drawing board with the colours now we have decided to ditch the lime wash and instead use chalk paint. There is also not much going on in the house (nothing in fact) so I shall go into a great deal of unnecessary detail about colours in this blog, for lack… Continue reading Choosing colours (again)
Second fix electric
We are both so incredibly tired and quite frankly sick of all things house and just want to fly away to somewhere tropical, but sadly for a variety of reasons that isn’t going to happen. Cat is struggling to keep her spirits up working in the house alone and I am pretty pissed off that… Continue reading Second fix electric
Graffiti regrets
I am sure Cat will find this funny when she returns on Friday. This is so true. Even Jasper got a BIG mention. It’s that time of year when fence posts grow gloves. Dan is cutting the elm floor board to fit the edge of the tread that he is repairing. He is extending it… Continue reading Graffiti regrets
Man vs root
The very good news is that all the portable heaters have made a huge difference to the condensation on the windows. This morning is the first morning for a couple of weeks that there hasn’t been pools of water on every window sill, in fact most sills were dry! Thank god for that as the… Continue reading Man vs root
The heat is on
Disappointingly the addition of the dehumidifier and the fan made very little difference to the condensation levels on the windows this morning. I am still mopping up pools of water on the sills and as soon as I dry the windows they are steaming up again… We need to get more heat in the house.… Continue reading The heat is on
Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
Saturday and Cat is back from Bristol but we are so knackered and utterly fed up with the house that we decide to have a day off house stuff. With so much yet to do and a huge clean up process to begin, we simply don’t know where to start. It is so overwhelming that… Continue reading Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
Ghost writer
It was a quiet weekend with us both having a well needed day off on Saturday, sort of, we both need some time where we aren’t constantly thinking about the house too. A socially distanced dog walk with Laura and her new dog, followed by a night in front of the telly watching a film… Continue reading Ghost writer
The giant claw
7.30am as I was getting out of the shower, I heard a very large lorry outside. The grab lorry was here to remove all the clay that we have dug out of the trench. Good job I was up! The walk way that George had constructed up the mud mountain yesterday so he could make… Continue reading The giant claw