Month: August 2022

Week beginning 29th August. It’s Monday morning and we wake nice and refreshed after a weekend in Edinburgh visiting family and friends. We took our grandchildren swimming to Dunbar where they have a pool with a flume and a wave machine and we always have fun there. On Saturday we went for a walk in… Continue reading Week Thirteen

A gentler start to today as we are now on our own but we still have a few tasks to do to stay on top of things. Just as we were getting our act together a delivery of timber arrived and we have to make sure that it is unloaded sensibly to maximise the space… Continue reading Week Twelve – Part Two

Week beginning 22nd August. It’s Monday morning and the beginning of the end of the ground works. We received an email last night from Scottish Water to say our track inspection will be on Friday. This would be a huge problem for us because Lorne will be finished and there won’t be anyone to dig… Continue reading Week Twelve

It’s Thursday morning and Lorne has arrived and it’s not quite 8am. We are hoping to get the track inspection done on Friday so there’s a bit to do. Lorne and I agree to work together to get the ducting for the electricity main cable laid, then we’ll do the pipe for the water main.… Continue reading Week Eleven – Part Two

Week beginning 15th August. We’re just getting dressed and Molly has spotted a deer through the caravan window. What a lovely site although we may not be saying that once we have a garden with nice plants and flowers for it to eat. Last night we had a terrible realisation, when we fitted the shed’s… Continue reading Week Eleven

It’s right back to finishing the Isoquick this morning. Between us we have decided that we will measure out where the soil pipes and services duct are to go then Lorne can dig trenches for them. We are getting on with fitting in the second layer of insulation on the Isoquick and it is going… Continue reading Week Ten – Part Two

Week beginning 8th August. We are excited at the prospect of pouring the concrete and are ready for the lorries to arrive around 10.30am. We have ordered two loads of 7 cubes (cubic meters) of concrete from a local quarry and are hoping that will be enough but if it is it will be a… Continue reading Week Ten

This morning’s task is to check the Isoquick and for Molly to return the ‘whacker plate’ (the hand operated compactor) to Oban. As soon as Lorne and Pete inspect the Isoquick they notice that the north side is a bit skew-whiff so they need to come up with a plan to rectify it that is… Continue reading Week Nine – Part Two

Week beginning 1st August. Our friends from Portobello, Katie, Martin and their son Peter, arrived last night and we had dinner in our caravan and had a great chin wag over a few too many wines, but it was fun. This morning Molly needs to rest so Pete is going with them for a canoe… Continue reading Week Nine