Author Archives: Grace

Today I framed the west wall of the outdoor kitchen, ready to stand it up and triangulate it to the south and north base plates tomorrow (when, with any luck, the metal bits I’m waiting for will have arrived.) It … Continue reading →

I got garden fever and went to Gordon Rigg’s to get some little alpines to plant between the paving slabs yesterday. I probably should have waited until the rest of the building was built, but I couldn’t help it, I … Continue reading →

A grand success of a birthday weekend. Cute, sweet, beautiful Elmo turned 51 in style with a polka-dot birthday cake and surrounded by load of friends. The weather was stunning, beautifully sunny but, for the most part, not too hot … Continue reading →

We’d known about the water meter for ages, in the bottom shed, and we’d spent about a year figuring out what happened between the pipe leaving the property and joining (or failing to join) the mains pipe. Elmo eventually found … Continue reading →

This is the pile of rocks I’ve been moving. I’m quite sick of moving rocks now, to be honest. But they’ll come in very handy when we start to build the driveway. Some of them have already come in handty … Continue reading →