Back to a public blog again

With Joe's concerns about this blog being public and the dodgy characters nosing around at the top house, I unwillingly made the blog private.

What a palaver that was, pretty much most of the people I was aiming it at didn't ask to be an invited reader, it was an biggie to ask however, not everyone wants a Google account, so thank you to those that did sign up.

I wasn't sure if I would continue with it, but then I thought I'm doing this for our benefit mostly and I wanted to keep a record of the ongoing renovations.

So I'll carry on recording our progress with the top house and the occasional other stuff.

We're at the stage where the electrician is running new wiring for sockets, lights etc. A plumber was in last Friday to make a start on what needs to be done. They're coming back towards the end of this week. Which meant we had to go and choose a bathroom!! We've never made such quick decisions before 😀

We're waiting on quotes for windows and we should have the kitchen plan and costs this week. Tomorrow, Tuesday, the flooring guy is coming to measure up.

So a lot is happening, just nothing to share yet.

However, Joe's been busy clearing around the water tank as it's had it's day and needs replacing. He's also made his way through the tall grass and brambles around the side of the house, almost to the outside/craft  room and removed a very ugly fence.

This is what you see as you come up the drive, it's very overgrown, the post and rail fence has been removed too

Looking back from behind the water tank

Views across the neighbouring dairy farm

The space behind the water tank and along the side of the house

Moving further along, on the left is the wood shed and a Manuka tree, both will need to be removed, we're installing heat pumps, we don't want  log burners

Standing with the wood shed to the left my future craft room is visible, the ugly fence panels have gone

Still lots to be cleared at the side of the craft room

Looking back towards the woodshed and Manuka Tree, both are being removed

If you can see where the removed fence panels are on the floor in front of the woodshed, this is where we are putting the spa, outside our bedroom window, overlooking he neighbouring farm.

Taken from the deck looking out at the view, it'll be much better when all the gorse has gone

View from our bedroom window

And that's it for today, hopefully I've got the settings right and you can see the blog again

See you next time x

Sue