SUMMERHOUSE NEARLY COMPLETE!!

Its been really really hard work and a lot of blisters!! late nights and LONG weekends!! but finally we are there, it took about 7 hours to get the patio doors out of the Mill to be rehoused in the summerhouse, they were built in with 9 inch ties and wedged in like you wouldn't believe!! but after sawing and banging and angle grinding and setting fire to hair and clothes!! we eventually got them out. Then Sunday Colin ..Petes brother made the mistake of popping in for a cup of tea and ended up helping us carry the furniture up a ladder to move into the summer house and get a kitchen unit out to put up there, just for storage tho! Just need a bit of worktop... Bet he is REAL glad he popped in! Wont be having a kitchen just cold water feed for a cuppa and an outside draining board for washing any cups and plates! In hind sight it may have been easier to build the bridge to get to it first???? NO don't be silly we will wait a while for that eh!!

CATS CLAIMING THEIR FURNITURE!

I took all the really good pine furniture out of the cottages ready to sell and stored it in our house, but the cats seemed to take control of it and now I feel bad if we sell it, its like their very own castle!

I did try to move a drawer and you can see by the look on smarties face she isnt happy!!

HEAT WAVE!

Its the end of September and they forecast a heat wave and boy have we got it today it is like the height of summer here....NO its not raining you cynical people! Its glorious hot sunshine!...Shame I am working maybe next year eh!

SOMETHING HAS HAD A MUNCH!

We found hundred of caterpillars happily munching their way through my plants, it looked like a plague of locusts had been through when they had finished! We had a good lot of butterflies this year though on the buddleias...no idea if that is the right way of spelling it or if its the right name of plant!!!!!

WISH I WERE A PET!

See Gem running through the fields and Shadow lounging about, her leg is better now and they have a life of Riley, no worries, get all the food and cuddles they need with nothing to think about except where they are going today and what adventures they can get up to, what a life!!!

IT HAS STARTED!!

The last guests in the mill building left on Saturday 10am and by 3pm I had started to remove the furniture. Luckily Holly my sister in law badgered me into putting things on eBay....EBAY what a frightening word! I have no idea how to work that, I can design anything you like but EBAY no cant do that don't have a clue... so I emailed the stuff to her and she put it on for me and by the end of Monday 48hours we had sold all the beds and 2 of the kitchens!!!! so I am a EBAY convert! Auntie Lou has been helping today shift things about and try to pack up stuff to keep and store and remove. Its a right ol' game really bit of a nightmare. But we are now at the point of unscrewing all the fixtures next, you wouldn't believe how much there is to do before we even start!. The electric has been cut off and the gas gets done with the water tomorrow. Then after our last guests for a few months ..Caroline and Jim ... we then remove the large gas tank at the bottom and will then build the office before work can commence on the mill, this will house the PV's and gas bottles... There is so much to organise, equipment, deliveries, time scaling, products, tie-ing stuff in, oh and work, how could I forget!!! and normal life with Steve and school and homework, Laura has it cushy up at uni!!!

WE DID HAVE FROGS!

I forgot to tell you we did manage to hatch some frogs from the hundreds of tadpoles!.. Here is one of them, they were quite difficult to photograph as they kept jumping out the picture, camera shy I think. I am not really sure how they made it as they had to share their pond with a great big hairy thing...no not Pete...Shadow ha ha. She used it as a paddling pool, but they all made it somehow!

ME AND MY SHADOW!

Need I say more!!

RUBY!

I don't know but I think that Ruby may well be standing still a little too much... Laura took this photo, I think all Ruby is interested in is eating and sleeping ...exercise doesn't really come in to it!!! All the frost had melted except the bit where Ruby was standing, god knows how long she had been just standing there.

NEW STEPS!

You know we are building a summerhouse up on the clearing and we have lifting tonnes upon tonnes of wood up a twelve foot shear to build it, Well now we have nearly finished we have put some steps in to access the place where the bridge will be!!! I know you are thinking why didn't they put them in first....well..one we didn't think of it and two it just would have been the same eh, whats life without a struggle or two!!!...MMM let me think....it would be that word I haven't heard in a long time...EASY????? Thanks Ant and Andy!! Another mission accomplished