After a long summer break in July, involving among other notable stuff:
catching up with the Cambridge crew (after a very long time),
a beautiful country wedding,
Some chainsaw-assisted log stairs for the Pirate Tree House
Abersoch beach
a birthday party at a dairy farm,
another epic win for that Kenyan dude,
and some "first ever big teeth"
we are back in the Shire and have even made a bit more progress.
First the update: because we are moving to Tarland (this is a good thing as the children won't have to move schools again and we will be nearer the plot) and because the cottage is not quite done (what have we been doing all this time?), our 6 month lease means we'll be in Tarland from Saturday for 6 months at least.
On arrival at the plot, we had been invaded by sheep, pigeons and swallows.
They had got in to the "store" of the barn and knocked over the tables, poo'd and pee'd everywhere and trashed it. The pigeons had nested and done similar in the cottage, and the swallows had taken it one step further by creating some new members of their family.
Job 1 was therefore to tidy up, then build a gate and fence (the barely visible bit below). There has been an old rotting wooden gate in the grass nearby for a long time so Jaimin collected it and upcycled it then installed it using 2 reclaimed iron hinges that were found lying around the plot, presumably from old stable or cottage garden doors.
On to the cottage...!
Before we left, the gutter brackets were almost complete and while away we decided we wanted another roof window above the bathroom. So on Saturday Jaimin went up and finished up all the gutter brackets (this time with screws, not square twist nails) and installed all the fascia brackets.
Next he installed the new noggins for the bathroom roof window, cut the parking and unleashed the recently renovated-with-love-and-dedication Paslode nail gun to firm it all up. No misfires, but some bad language from the cameraman...!
The roofer is officially starting on Monday... some progress should be reported in the coming weeks.
The view still looks great, especially in midsummer....
catching up with the Cambridge crew (after a very long time),
a beautiful country wedding,
Some chainsaw-assisted log stairs for the Pirate Tree House
Abersoch beach
a house with a hot tub
another epic win for that Kenyan dude,
and some "first ever big teeth"
we are back in the Shire and have even made a bit more progress.
First the update: because we are moving to Tarland (this is a good thing as the children won't have to move schools again and we will be nearer the plot) and because the cottage is not quite done (what have we been doing all this time?), our 6 month lease means we'll be in Tarland from Saturday for 6 months at least.
On arrival at the plot, we had been invaded by sheep, pigeons and swallows.
They had got in to the "store" of the barn and knocked over the tables, poo'd and pee'd everywhere and trashed it. The pigeons had nested and done similar in the cottage, and the swallows had taken it one step further by creating some new members of their family.
Job 1 was therefore to tidy up, then build a gate and fence (the barely visible bit below). There has been an old rotting wooden gate in the grass nearby for a long time so Jaimin collected it and upcycled it then installed it using 2 reclaimed iron hinges that were found lying around the plot, presumably from old stable or cottage garden doors.
On to the cottage...!
Before we left, the gutter brackets were almost complete and while away we decided we wanted another roof window above the bathroom. So on Saturday Jaimin went up and finished up all the gutter brackets (this time with screws, not square twist nails) and installed all the fascia brackets.
Next he installed the new noggins for the bathroom roof window, cut the parking and unleashed the recently renovated-with-love-and-dedication Paslode nail gun to firm it all up. No misfires, but some bad language from the cameraman...!
The roofer is officially starting on Monday... some progress should be reported in the coming weeks.
The view still looks great, especially in midsummer....
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