freshening up in the bathroom
The bathroom was, as with every room in this house, yellow. A kind of peachy-sand shade of yellow. →
moving forward: the existing plans have arrived
Three weeks ago the technical surveyor came from the architects to measure up the house. He was here for over two hours taking precise measurements of the house. It wasn’t in itself particularly exciting, he was a nice man wandering around our house in his socks, but the underlying meaning was very exciting: we’re moving →
architects
the world of architects, designs, planning and budgets I knew we wanted an architect to help design the →
trees
Q. Can you have too many trees in your garden? A. Yes, definitely. We inherited approximately 3000 trees when we bought this house. OK, so not that many, but we have half a dozen rowans, two crabapples, an apple tree, a couple of flowering cherries, a twisted willow and a twisted pear, contorted hazel, magnolia, →
Introducing Number Eight 2.0
New home, new project, new neighbours, new challenges. It’s a two bedroom semi, built using local materials and →
say hello, wave goodbye
It’s been a long time coming. Our plan when we bought number eight was to live here for →
spring in the garden
Winter wasn’t very kind to the garden. So many plants withered to almost or absolute nothing. We were →
uphill gardening
A before and after photo, lest we forget how far we’ve come. We’ve spent most of the past four weekends working on the garden. Once the landscapers moved out, booyaa painted the fence while I kept Betsy entertained (out of the way and not liable to get herself covered in paint). Then we planted the →
