Get on with it

So we've ordered the house. That is, we've told the timber frame company to start manufacturing it. Very exciting. Delivery date is late April, which gives us four months to prepare the site. 

We have drawings for a new and permanent steel frame to hold up the front wall, so we'll be placing that order soon.

We've restarted the lease for the field at the back, so we can build the access road.

All this is in anticipation of planning permission, which is promised for Friday. There will be beer.

Good eh?

Nuther Old Photo

This old un-sent postcard turned up..

Interesting (for us) to see the empty space to the left of the Sunday school, which was later filled with a small cottage attached to the Town Hall. The gap between our gable end and the cottage is about 30cm now. Luckily the people there are nice and supportive :)

Still waiting

Wow, September was my last blog. Unforgivable.

So what's happened? Well.. not much

We had a big fire on 5 November...

Thanks Patty for that video :-)

..then, finding we STILL don't have planning permission, we moved the graveyard garden onward a few notches...

Roughly 100 shrubs planted in, luckily before the oncoming deep frosts. Most of them will be moved later, just need to keep them alive for now, they weren't cheap.

That's it I'm afraid. Mostly a picture post, but we really are close to getting the planning permission, so I promise more interesting stuff soon.