Update 20201109

Well now, it's been a while since the last update, and much has come to pass. Sadly no access road yet, but we creep ever closer to that goal, despite miles of red tape.

Using the "Plan B" route through the front door to a skip on the road, Paul has managed with a small digging machine to clear most of the rubble etc from the main chapel. It's unrecognisable from the rubble-strewn forest we first encountered all those months ago. Kudos to Lyn, who has been a solid member of the wheelbarrow team, moving literally tonnes of rubble to the skip. 

There is a council meeting later today, in which we hope we will receive official permission to build our access road. Things will move a lot faster from then on.

This weekend we moved all the potted plants, benches, chairs etc from our garden to the front of Mount Pleasant. I would estimate we've moved 3 tonnes of stuff. Have to say I was glad to sit at my desk today, my bones are aching. This was not an attempt at some extremely premature landscaping, we just need to empty our garden so we can move out in early December. From then on our home (and office) will be a holiday apartment. At least until we can feasibly fit a caravan on the site at Mount Pleasant.

We had a lovely bonfire on the 5th. Actually two:

Spot the missus: 

In the morning, twenty tonnes of roof trusses, floorboards and general church paraphernalia had been reduced to this:

My stop-motion camera, visible here high up on the gable end, captured the whole evening in 5-minute slices. The result will be part of a video I'll put together at the end. It'll be nice to see the progression from this to the final product.

Build HQ:

Our in-fern-ary now has added hostas. Hostalry, anyone?

Some shots from a scaffold platform at the back of the property. Lovely views of Kinder, which we intend to enjoy from the three arched windows you can see in some of these shots.

More soon, if you're good.