English Weather

After three weeks of gales and horizontal rain which finally saw off the old cherry tree

We now have freezing fog which has closed down the airports all over the country with the resultant chaos just as all the Christmas travelers are not now setting off. For us stay at homes the ice scuptures are very interesting

Even the resident gnome has felt the cold and
has been iced to his post. The fog we are told will continue until after the Christmas holiday and we will not see any breeze until nearly the New Year. Good job we demolished the old shed and have tuns of wood to burn in the stove.

Here is the new garage with the railway sleepers in position to support the pantile roof.


















Peter and Genevieve have been to trim up their Christmas Trees outside the back door









But for the forseeable future we are closing down and hunkering up in front of the stove with a good book and hot drinks. This is the view to Boston











So a Very Merry Christmas to all our readers and a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.

May your God be with you

There goes that shed!!

One of the big attractions when we purchased the cottage was the big shed. Into it went all those things that you kept "Just in case" and all those things that had a value in an urban life but none in this one and vice versa. Here we found the tin bath and the old gas boiler that gave us the hot water and the bath when we first arrived and were doing the old house up. Into here went the eight teachests of 78rpm records which I had collected in the early 1980s when I gave up smoking and used the money saved to purchase something as a hooby. These have not been looked at since we moved in 1988. It has served as a garage - workshop - shelter from the rain while the bus came ( you can see through a hole in the wall to see if the bus is comming) - welding shop - wood store. BUT it is more like a lace curtain of a shed now -

and seems to have be getting shorter as it used to take all the car undercover !!!!!!



So it was decided that it must go to make way for a newer version to be built on the same site but of block and brick with a tile roof. Back came Michael the builder to work his magic again. He first sent his brother, who was on holiday and looking for a restfull job to fill in the time, to dig the foundations.


Then it was going going gone

BUT out of the roots of the old shed a new shed has grown all solid and clean. We have used old bricks to front the building and the rest is building block which will be painted in the spring.



Tomorrow 18th December they will put in place two 14' railway sleepers as door beams and one 9' railway sleeper as window beam. The building is the same length as the bungalow we lived in in Spring Farm Lane Harden and if it was 5' wider it would be the same width. The roof will be of reclaimed tiles to match the barn but we cannot find a second hand window to fit the hole.

Watch this space for the next steps in the build.