We're holding off on getting it sorted legally though, as we want to talk to the owner of the small piece of ground by our garden (in green) and if he is willing to sell it see if we can get that sorted out at the same time. Those two changes would make the plot around the house a much more normal shape.
One of the problems with this property is the odd arrangement of the plot and the fields. After a chat with our neighbour last night, we have agreed to a field swap to make our plot a more sensible shape. We are going to give him two fields (outlined in blue) in return for the one at the back of our house (outlined in orange).
We're holding off on getting it sorted legally though, as we want to talk to the owner of the small piece of ground by our garden (in green) and if he is willing to sell it see if we can get that sorted out at the same time. Those two changes would make the plot around the house a much more normal shape.
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Happy Christmas to all our friends and family! Freya has had a great Christmas and loved all her presents. This is the first one where she has really understood what was going on and she found it all very exciting.
I haven't posted for a while as unfortunately we've all been struck down with the flu. Luckily Freya had it first and is nearly recovered now - just a runny nose and a bit of a cough left. Brian and I are still quite definately unwell. Brian in particular is struggling to fight it off and is in quite a bad way, possibly because he wasn't able to fully rest. Unfortunately some jobs just had to be done (like shifting our delivery from the builders merchant into the sheds). Also, with so much to do, as soon as he felt a bit better he would try to do some easy jobs One of those easy jobs that we are very glad he did manage to get done was to fine-tune the satellite dish reception. We finally got round to installing the freesat kit (which we bought with us from the UK) about a fortnight ago, but initially only had a couple of channels (though they did include CBeebies, so Freya couldn't see what the problem was). A few well-placed taps with a rubber mallet and some twisting of the LNB and we had the full range of channels just in time for Christmas. This isn't the same as the UK freeview range (sadly no Dave) but there are a few nice extras, for instance I now have Horse and Country TV! Ronny is struggling a little to understand about dogs on TV not actually being in the room, but hopefully he will get used to it soon. Sadly no traditional Christmas dinner this year due to lack of cooking facilities and preparation areas, but we had plenty of goodies to eat and the animals still got their regular Christmas treats; A big bone for Ronny, and a bottle of Guinness each for Trigger and Sully. and no furniture in our main room is that we can have a huge (8ft) Christmas tree.
Brian has been making good progress with the main fireplace. He has cleaned off and out masses of tar, dirt etc. including three mice nests. He's replaced, repaired and cleaned the voussure stones. He's done loads of re-pointing, lined the flue and is currently infilling around the liner with vermiculite concrete.
Even so, we are still not yet ready to install the big 21kw+ boiler stove that we are planning. In the meantime we have put in a little pot-bellied stove which lets us heat up the main room enough that it is possible to keep working in cold weather. |
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