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Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 90 – 98)

Saturday, December 5th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 90 – 98) We’re finally hitting the stage of the great rebuild where it’s now becoming much clearer what the space will look like when it’s done. This makes me much happier than the previous chaos with no end in sight and where it…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 87 – 89)

Wednesday, November 18th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 87 – 89) Monday was all about the “chimney breast” and its construction. Dave turned up single-handed, and we spent a good hour discussing what we wanted, pondering the size of the electric fire we have bought, and trying to work out how to…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 77 – 86)

Friday, November 13th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 77 – 86) It’s been one hell of a two weeks. It started on 2nd November when the plasterer was due to start. Except that the plasterer couldn’t come because he was busy getting a Covid-19 test, which would take at least two days…

Food 2020 – Recipes (Stuffed Mushrooms; Salt-Baked Beetroot with Whipped Ricotta, Apple and Hazelnut; Roast Squash and Plums in Garlic, Ginger and Chilli)

October 2020 – Recipes (Stuffed Mushrooms; Salt-Baked Beetroot with Whipped Ricotta, Apple and Hazelnut; Roast Squash and Plums in Garlic, Ginger and Chilli) The thing about the new normal is that I end up with all sorts of unexpected vegetables in the weekly fruit and vegetable box I get to save me having to trek…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 45 – 76)

Friday, October 30th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 45 – 76) And lo, we have a roof! And one or two new walls. And a floor. The start of October saw the removal men appear and empty out the lounge and dining room, the bigger of the spare bedrooms, and our bedroom,…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 8 – 44)

Wednesday, September 16th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 8 – 44) I would have liked to keep on blogging the process of the dreaded extension build we’re in the middle of but things went badly wrong in mid-September when Lynne went out for a walk to avoid the cleaners (as part of…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 6)

Monday, July 27th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 6) So, the tree is now gone, Rob, the Structural Engineer, has drawn up the necessary plans for dealing with the remnants (the roots mostly) and Mal the builder has been back for another look at the site now it no longer has a…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 4 & 5)

Thursday/Friday, July 23rd/24th 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Days 4 & 5) On Thursday nothing much happened, but on Friday the offending tree went. If I’d left it to Jim (the architect) the gods only know how long we’d have had to wait. I didn’t, because the best man for the job is…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 3)

Wednesday, July 22nd 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 3) Jim, the architect turned up unexpectedly today and spent some time staring at the tree. He is still of the opinion that the tree could just go and no one will turn a hair. Later on two separate tree surgeons turned up to…

Home 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 2)

Tuesday, July 21st 2020 – The Great House Extension Project (Day 2) No building whatsoever today, and no contact from anyone apart from a brief communication from the architect saying he thought we could “just cut the tree down and worry about it later” and saying that he had asked Rob, our Structural Engineer, to…