Finn's Built House

Finn came home from nursery today and thrust a picture "for you Daddy" in to my hand.
"Wow Finn, what is it?!"
"It's a house."
"Which one?"
"The new one, the built one. I want it like this".

Well, here it is:

We have had a few letters of support in the system already which is positive, and we'll hopefully be able to get a few more which might bolster our position. In the meantime we're quite literally just waiting.

We did save ourselves a cool £1000 by changing the upstairs layout from a 4 to 1 bed, because the "Developer Obligations" (a way the local council raises money for themselves off house builders) was re-assessed and reduced. Result!

Planning submitted

Happy New Year!

Christmas involved a large family gathering at Clay House and the only present even worth talking about is the kids' Haba marble run. :-)  And for anyone who hasn't seen or used Google Cardboard, you need to get involved - simply incredible!

As planned (how long it's been since I could say that!) we have submitted the planning application. I've notified our only neighbour, and now we wait and see what happens. Let's hope we've managed to compile something that passes this acid test..