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The fuchsia’s bright
Photos from the past few days around the bog. Some misty mornings, some golden hour evenings…
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More progress
We now have a bed and a washing machine. Tremendous improvement all round. The washing machine took me ages to find – I wanted one that would work fine gravity-fed from the header tank 3 […]
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Saving turf is hard work
As soon as the turf has been cut by the machine, it’s sitting in long snakes in the wind and sun, forming a crust on the outside. It then needs to be divided into sods, […]
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Say we can, say we will / not just another drop in the ocean…
The cutter arrived yesterday… I was sat minding my own business in the house, then heard a tremendous rumbling noise approaching. At first, I thought it was a helicopter landing, but having dashed around to […]
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We’ve got the power…
The electricity got connected on Thursday, a mere three weeks after we paid them to do the job. Of course, as soon as it’s done, all is forgiven! We were so relieved to get to […]
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Closer to fine
So we’ve got until the end of this month (March) to get the bog house sorted now. The builder managed a couple of days of work last week, which has resulted in the kitchen being […]
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Gallery of bog house taken 28/01/2017
We thought we’d go along and check progress, as we’re due to give notice to our landlord that we’ll be moving out in a month’s time. The builder is confident that we’ll be able to […]
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New year’s resolution clearly wasn’t to keep my blog up to date
Progress continued on the bog house. The last time I saw it before Christmas, it was full of rubble and in an utter state. It reminded me of when we first met the builder and […]
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Stop press: builder thinking about starting work sometime next week maybe
Hopefully a more accurate headline than many we’ve seen of late, but not holding our breath on that one. We’ve whittled down our list of things for the builder to do: Main roof replacement. Kitchen […]