Ben and Dave’s Blog

Sadly still no progress on Grange during the week with a poorly builder and, although there are a number of things that I can do on my own with all my focus on Grange other things don’t get done – and there are always lots of other things that need our attention. This week’s blog…

Last week’s blog said that our builder had unfortunately damaged his back so we weren’t able to progress Grange but it did allow us to focus on a number of other projects that had been waiting and all of these were able to be outside as the weather has been so fantastic – 28 degrees…

Last week’s blog said that, as he had put his back out, our builder wouldn’t be able to join us for the week so we wouldn’t be able to progress work on Grange.  It also said that, while that was regrettable, it would allow us to progress other projects that we have wanted to start…

A relatively short blog this week and with almost no phots I’m afraid.  Not because we haven’t been doing anything – we have – but because this has been a bitty sort of week when we haven’t really been able to focus on a single thing. The weather has been a bit mixed and our…

Another productive week this week but has been a great mix of work and play. The weather was much better than it has been in previous weeks and allowed us to get back to work on Grange for a couple of days but I also managed to tick off a number of other tasks that…

As I wrote last week’s blog I spoke about hiding inside sheltering from the wind and how it had already blown down a couple of branches in the orchard and that I hoped we wouldn’t suffer any greater damage.  Prophetic words … While in the UK we missed any disruption from Doris but the storm…

As you will have seen from last week’s Facebook post, in place of a full blog, the choice for the name of the garage will be ‘Grange’ – thank you to those who joined in the selection – all bar 1 vote was for that choice (and we are delighted as it was also our…

This week has been another productive period and, as anticipated, we have managed to start covering the roof of the garage although could only do a couple of days work on it. The week started with preparation to welcome a journalist guest and her family to Kergudon who was working for one of the agencies…

Sunday 12 February – Wood work As forecast in last week’s blog, the weather was a bit iffy at the start of the week and I had 2 more days doing my carpentry  (a.k.a woodwork!)  Much of it was preparing things that will be built later and a couple I have kept secret from David…

As we anticipated in last week’s blog, the weather over the last 7 days has been very mixed.  Thankfully it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as we had expected from early forecasts which seemed to predict storm after storm after storm.  In reality it was the usual February mixed bag of rain, showers, hail and…