Author Archives: Grace

It’s been nearly 15 years since I lived in the US and for the first several years I always made a lavish Thanksgiving dinner for me, Elmo and whoever else was around. That sort of petered out and in the … Continue reading →

I am a lax, lax, lax blogger. But let he who is without communications laziness cast the first stone, eh? And to make matters worse, I only have a very small amount of progress to report. Sam came to stay … Continue reading →

A beautiful, misty morninged, sunny afternooned weekend at Boggart Hall, with some in the way of getting stuff done and some in the way of just enjoying the place. Gill and I had built a second “floor” on the woodstore … Continue reading →

We’re currently enjoying a visit from Jim Monahan of Highland Eco whose house we (very briefly) helped to build when we were looking at inspirational projects. Here’s a picture of the house, which I truly was inspired by. We visited … Continue reading →

We finally got the phone line (complete with new internet pole – thanks Anna for settling the age old Anglo-American argument as to whether it’s a phone pole or a telegraph pole.) At the moment it’s only a master socket, … Continue reading →