This weekend we held our annual end-of-year review and 2026 planning meeting. Something John learnt from his corporate days is the importance of reviewing our company financials to see how we’ve done over the
Category: Cottage renovation
Stud walling
Work has continued this week in our one bed cottage. All the insulation is now in and our carpenter has started putting in the stud wall between the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. The plumbers
Starting work on our one-bed cottage – The Cow Shed
Our builder arrived on site this week to start work on our one-bed cottage. We split the old dairy (the ‘shippon’) and cow shed into two – we extended one half
A mixed week of maintenance, cooking, seaside and building work prep
Another week and a few more jobs ticked off our to-do list. The external steel stairs up to the Games Room had started to go green
An odd job week
This has been another week of sunny weekdays and (mostly) a wet weekend – why does that seem to happen when you have big outdoor
Of oil tanks and jam
This has been a pretty busy week, all things considered. On Tuesday the oil tanks for the farmhouse were replaced after we found out they
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