Month: December 2023

Week beginning 25th December 2023. It’s Boxing Day afternoon and we have just arrived back at Gar Bothan after our Christmas trip to Edinburgh. We arrived on Friday night so we could take Niven and Caitlin swimming at Dunbar Leisure Pool on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, Caitlin wasn’t well and only stayed in the pool for… Continue reading Week Eighty-two

This is a special edition of ‘The Portobello Reporter’ made for Pete by Neil Braidwood. We thought it would be nice to share it. Enjoy

Week beginning 18th December 2023. It’s going to be a disrupted week in the run-up to Christmas but there are a few things we want to get done before the festive break. We are starting with finishing the trims on the double trusses above the east mezzanine. We now have our system for doing this… Continue reading Week Eighty-one

Week beginning 11th December 2023. It’s another Monday morning and our aim today is to get some small but important tasks completed. To start with we are refitting the balcony door lock barrel so that the key turns to lock the door. When Pete fitted it he didn’t realise that the lock had to be… Continue reading Week Eighty

Week beginning 4th December 2023. Before Andrew headed home he gave us a to-do list so that we are ready for the electrician, who will hopefully do the second fix on the house before Christmas. So, this Monday morning we are working on insulating the area where the balcony joists meet the supporting timber on… Continue reading Week Seventy-nine

Week beginning 27th November 2023. It’s the beginning of a big week for us, Andrew is coming today and staying over so that he can do more work tomorrow. The plan is to start fitting the kitchen and if the weather and time allows, start erecting the balcony. It’s a beautiful sunny but very cold… Continue reading Week Seventy-eight