eh voila

the new kitchen!

the good news is that pumpkin survived the extension (his tail is in shot) and sad news is I think the old kitchen units are being banished back to the basement.
right,  just got to get sink, cooker, taps, worktop, splashback, blinds, and a life.

no more the caravan ...

yup we're in the house.  with running water and electricity and heating.  it's amazing.  i can't tell you how nice it feels to have my own bath again.  obviously there are hitches - for example the bath tap is broken and the french door doesn't open and nobody really knows how the thermostat works but we're really nearly there.  on sunday we even ate our lunch in the new kitchen.  i took some photos to prove it.

so what of the dark month?  october 2011.  it was so bleak i couldn't face posting any updates.  not that there were any really.   my builder crush disappeared onto another job - the two timer - and then when he came back for a day i burst into tears.  meanwhile the whole family developed whooping cough in the caravan - coco's still coughing - and my pelvic floor hasn't been the same since . . .

in out

The bathroom was supposed to be up and running by the weekend.  It wasn't of course.  But we'd got the bit between our teeth so decided to move back in anyway.  I even hoovered.  Needless to say it's Monday and we're back in the caravan.  No loo, no sink, no electricity and tons of dust - what were we thinking?  anyway it's going to be a heatwave this week.   

Never again.  

for sarah

here he is mr tiggywinkle caught in the act

two and a half weeks

And the bathroom will be operational.  In theory.

mr tiggywinkle

i thought hedgehogs belonged to the 70's but i've been proved wrong.  there's one living under the caravan.    he's surprisingly noisy.  pumpkin and him have been fighting it out for the expensive lams catfood.

meanwhile my favourite builder is holidaying in scotland.  i miss him.

awning's up

It's already blown down once.   Now got guy ropes.  Hoping it'll survive the september storms.  According to country file they're heading this way ....