…came through a week or so ago, I’ve just been too busy (and absent from the country) to enthuse about it. I’m so relieved, I really had no idea, having never been through this, whether we’d have to make all sorts of concessions. In the end, we dropped one point voluntarily, having had it pointed out to us that it would impact the neighbours’ view negatively (and fair enough, it really would have) and we are having to put a one-meter high fence around the trees (which is just about the whole plot except the building site) which is a bit of a pain when the purpose of it is to keep us from storing piles of building materials on their root systems, which we wouldn’t do anyway. But it’s a pretty small price to pay for our dream one step closer to coming true.<\/p>\n
I’m hoping to make a bunch more progress in the coming weeks, tiling the floor, claying the walls, making it weathertight FINALLY! and planting a sprinkling of grass seed to make a token attempt to compete with the existing weed life.<\/p>\n
I’m also hoping to start planning a barbecue area; I’ve stripped down Alec’s knackered cooker for parts and I’m going to use the grille and oven shelves and some of the old wall bricks from the plot to build a custom outdoor cooking area. I’d like to include an oven (how hard can it be?) so it might take me a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
…came through a week or so ago, I’ve just been too busy (and absent from the country) to enthuse about it. I’m so relieved, I really had no idea, having never been through this, whether we’d have to make all … Continue reading