Burning stuff #1

 First burning completed. 3 hours of beer and backache.

A little historic mini-drama now..

And then we celebrated..

It got late, and a bit spooky. Yellow eyes, and the ghostly Town Hall looks on..

In other news, our installation of an electric meter continues apace.

In other other news, planning moved on a step today, as we received some drawings from Jeremy the Architect which look pretty good. We'll have a lift for our old age it seems :)

More soon

Work has begun

 Well, we've started.

Job 1 is to clear the grounds for jobs 2 --> x, and involves cutting a lot of brambles, burning a lot of old wood, and eventually chopping down trees.

Builder Paul found the water stopcock and turned it on. Never expected this:

  

Much hilarity. Then we turned it off.

Some wildlife shots:

  

Must go, I have to help Lyn drill holes in a bin. There's going to be lots of burning...

Parallelly, (a word from the subcontinent there) plans for planning planning permission applications are being planned. I don't have pictures of the planning plans, sorry, but suffice to say the plan is sketchy, and the sketches are even sketchier. More soon.

For the Garden

 Made a thing.

..in anticipation of having a garden to put it in.

My Front Door

Hope to be repeating this image in a few short months (possibly 36) with a slightly better door.

Might also replace the hat.

Update - 20200820

 So progress. We completed on the purchase of Mount Pleasant today. Whoopee, we now own a ruin.

Our house has sold, subject to survey, to the first viewer. That was always going to be the easy part, to be fair.

Still in talks with Jeremy (Architect) about how to make a house and a business venture out of this thing. Here's Lyn marking up his latest outline...

Lyn is also in discussions to get the various utilities (re)connected.

More soon.

First planning session

Had the dream team round for coffee. Lots of ideas discussed.

(..and beer)

Owl thing

So details. We bought the old Methodist Free Church building in New Mills. It burned out in the 1990s and really all that remains are four walls and some graves. Trees have grown up in the building and the adjoining Sunday school building, which is part of the property. Pics:

We intend to make the home we've always wanted - detached, not overlooked, lots of light, views across the valley to Kinder Scout. Currently we're still arranging meetings with an architect and an engineer. Then we'll know more about how it will end up.

Had a mooch around this morning and saw this little chap sleeping in one of the trees..

..so decided to rename my blog in his honour.

More soon. This might fall through even yet..

Later taters