ALL HAPPY

Talk about taking over the house, we now have 7 cats, Sassy, Smudge, Smartie, Scrappy, Smurf, Squiggly and Squeaker! And they all want a piece of the action in front the fire, no one else can get a look in they are always there as soon as we light it they appear from no where!

GEM GEM GEM

Gem is a real soppy dog, she loves attention ...but obviously strickly on her terms she can be a cantankerous ol' mare, Pete said cant they all??? Dont know what he was talking about eh! Laura was rubbing Gems belly and her feet were going around like in a washing machine! I did mention to Laura to try it with Shadow but as she weighs in at 62 kgs I think it might be a bit difficult!!

SANTA?

Found these on my line, I think Santa might be staying with us????

CHRISTMAS ON THE WAY

Haven't had a minute of time to sort Xmas, so I am hoping the Internet will provide and deliver to Santa!! and food...well Laura is back from uni so she is full time on duty, so we will be busy every minute until Xmas day now, just hope we can get all the food and clean the house and muck out and prepare everything for Xmas eve and Xmas day, going to be a good one if i can pull this year off, i will be impressed with myself!!!!! The kittens reckon they are helping?????

TILLEY POORLY

Tilley hasn't really been what I call well for quite some time and is on painkillers, her feet are very sore, the vet thinks it might be a low level laminitus a bit like a diabetic sort of thing. She is on medication and we will have to see how she responds and see how it goes really, we cant have her in not manageable pain, that's cruel, but as long as we can make her live as pain free as possible we will.

NOW THE BIG FREEZE!

From Floods to freeze, the duck pond was 6 inches thick ice that was barely breakable with a sledge, the animal feeds and water had to be distributed by hand every few hours as it kept re freezing, its been a hard few weeks really, its not like that's the only thing we have to do, there is so much, the animals are the smallest job!...The pipes were frozen for weeks and the ice was getting to us, I would rather have snow than ice, actually I would rather have sun but i realise its December!....

FLOODS

St.Blazey hit the news a few weeks ago, and Prince Charles duly visited,...the football club of all places, I heard he had a cuppa there, poor guy! only kidding its a great place really!!! Not quite Buckingham Palace though eh! We had a real flood, woke up to a helicopter shining its search light through our window at 5am! I thought we were under attack!, then I had a text from my brother to say I had better leave in plenty of time for school as the roads are closed and they are searching for someone in the river, I didn't realise how bad it was out there until Pete feed the animals and the road down by the duck pond was no longer a road but a 2 ft raging river and homes were already under water, Fowey, Mevagissey, Lostwithiel, St.Austell, the Eden Project were all flooded, crazy situation eh. We had to get to Millfield interview/viewing for Steve by 1.50 and somehow had to get out of Cornwall on what ever roads were open or somehow passable. The leat that we have been fighting for someone to dredge for 3 and a half years was a lot to blame but we are weeks after now and it still hasn't been done, they just don't listen or learn.....The big clean up has begun in the towns and villages, we were lucky we only had flooded land and not homes, I think it will be a while before some peoples homes are habitable, but the businesses are mostly up and running again. Walking around you wouldn't know any different but open the doors to some houses and they are empty. Our local chippy got flooded but hes up and chippying again now...phew! Oh and the people in the river, they were found and luckily no bad casualties which is a blessing. So St.Blazey is well and truly on the map!!

ITS BEEN A WHILE

Needless to say it has been hectic here.... we stupidly jested that we would like to build another bedroom off the first floor, and then mentioned it to a client, who suggested we swap some labour for drawings and what was a sort of idea was starting on Monday morning, so after drawing up the construction over the weekend i was all hands on deck....we worked every night and every hour at weekends to get it done for xmas, hence the lack of signing in here.....You will b glad to hear we have finished it a month and a day start to finish and with 2 foot thick walls to hack out it was no mean feat!!...Looks great, just a small bedroom, but enough to fit in a double futon thing....what has the world come to, i have given in to the lure of a futon, cant believe i bought an item, careful i might go the whole hog and get a jacuzzi, now that would be a worry!!!

TRYING TO KEEP UP

We are currently adding a forth bedroom at the back of the house and some Muppet who did our felt and batten for us, decided to do it like wrapping a present instead of correctly, so in all this torrential rain we have had leak after leak, sometimes more like rivers int he house, we have buckets everywhere...But lucky for us Tom a friend of ours is able to come Monday to redo it and slate it to make us water tight. We also have another nightmare the whole roof has to come off to be re slated so looks like that will be happening between Xmas and new year or something! yippee dooo! Can it get any better!.... So we have been working flat out on the extension.....Purl Design is also really busy so we are really trying to hold it all together in the hope of having Christmas day off! I was told to cut my stress and hours by the doc....I am hoping this will happen after xmas a bit! On and off poorly at the mo, depends on which day and whether my body wants to do what my brain is telling it!...I think I do quite well though I keep on going, bit like a Duracell battery advert eh! I try to get some photos of extension when I have a minute and the rain stops, but currently I am catching water in buckets or wading through mud in the field....Oh my glamorous life!

4 STAR GOLD

We had our inspection last week or was it the week before? Well we had it anyway, we were busy doing all the outside gardening and maintenance, whilst Perfect Example were taking care of the insides of the cottages, it usually takes me at least a month to go through all the inventories and make sure everything is right, and then I panic and do it all over again, when really its fine in the first place, so to have Scott and his team I am really pleased, it takes a bit of pressure off.....

Anyway we achieved four star gold, we cant get to five star because we cannot fit washing machines in each unit, we have a very nice laundry though! So congrats to everyone involved.