Month: May 2023

Week beginning 22nd May 2023. We took a long weekend in Glasgow to get some rest and recuperation but before we left on Friday we fitted the flashings on the south elevation of the mega-shed. It didn’t take us too long, leaving us plenty of time to pack a bag for our weekend away. We… Continue reading Week Fifty-one

Week beginning 15th May 2023. It’s another Monday morning and our plan for today is to fit all the remaining gutters to the house and the mega-shed. We are off to a slow start and are generally feeling weary but we’ll plod on. We are taking a lot of care to ensure the fall from… Continue reading Week Fifty

Week beginning 8th May 2023. Spring has finally sprung and the plants are coming to life. Our garden is coming into bloom and it makes us very happy, especially the plants and seeds contributed by our family and our friends. We’ve also had lots of visitors to our bird feeders. here’s a wee selection of… Continue reading Week Forty-nine

It’s Thursday morning and Andrew has arrived very sharpish, we haven’t even finished breakfast. It’s very windy so we are having to change plans, we had hoped to finish roofing around the final roof window but it would be too dangerous. Instead Andrew is going to show us how to fit the gutters. We start… Continue reading Week Forty-eight – Part Two

Week beginning 1st May 2023. Apologies for not posting a part-two last week but we went to Edinburgh for our grandson’s eleventh birthday and didn’t find the time to post, so here is a catch-up. On Wednesday, with Alistair’s help, we finished fixing the tin on the mega-shed roof. On Thursday the weather forced us… Continue reading Week Forty-eight