Thursday Things are starting to happen. We have news from the Camp family that bags are packed and the journey has begun! First up, I off collecting a wealth of beautiful mirabelle plums, then off to go collect a baby car seat for Rhys and Lucy. While out I saw a number of interesting events coming up so thought I’d best take pics and let Matt know. Back at home
Read moreSaturday Yay, we got a big delivery today which woke me up early. It’s our wedding present – thank you again to everyone that contributed. Anyway, back to work. Still so much work to do around the windows. It pretty much took all day, but meanwhile I also continued to work on the floor in Room 5. We’re tired and Matt wants dinner so I think we’re done for the
Read moreWednesday Matt is off to a ‘work’ conference in Madrid, well it’s actually the AWS self driving car racing that he does but he seems to be able to pass this off as being work. I’m going along for the ride too so first things first we need to get the automatic feeder ready for the cat as she’s going to be on her own for a few days. Cat
Read moreFriday Back home finally and the first thing to do is to enjoy the garden. The lilies are out already and looking good, although I wish they could have waited till the wedding, but then that will be true of almost every plant, none will actually flower when I want them to. And I picked up a few more plants, naturally. Matt and I have been finalising plans for how
Read moreThursday Busy with work and then heading off to the airport. We’ve gone up a bit early to stop for dinner before I head off. It was quite good actually. I quite liked the kitsch plane decor, the deep red and the food wasn’t bad either. It would have been nice to have been able to sit out in the sun too but they had an event coming in so
Read moreWednesday Seems there’s a great tit doing a dance for Matt, and this time it’s not me or Ed after a few drinks. As the sun peaks out again we’re back off to the materiaux place for more breeze blocks. Matt needs to get to work so leaves me to unload them. Lucky I’m super strong and resilient! As I go back to work it’s good to see Steve 1
Read moreWednesday Work project was in yesterday so am cracking on today outside and the sun is finally shining again. Flowers, butterflies and bees! Tonia is trying to pull out some of the big weeds from the games lawn while I try to plant up some calendular in little pots we could put on the outside convening tables during the wedding and get the delphiniums into the ground. I really don’t
Read moreTuesday Ugh, nothing like a Tuesday after a bank holiday to remind you how long a day can be and yet also how many more hours you need in a day! It’s a dog’s life right.. Moved some of the plants in the afternoon to get them off the garden and back to where they ought to be, decorating the front of the house. A couple were starting to grow
Read moreFriday Having done a tour around the house on the scaffolding there were a few things that we’d seen that we weren’t 100% happy with. We had a chat with the builders though who seemed happy to look at them all and address them which is great, better to raise it now than when they take the scaffolding down eh! While I’d love to just crack on with work that
Read moreMonday Work and more planting, I shall continue to try to make it the most beautiful place you have ever seen. And more arches, because arches are fancy as f**k! Mum has also been previously very insistent that we take down the metal and glass structure above the front door. Being quite broken it is rather ugly and with us getting the outside of the house done it needs to
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