Author: Pete Ross

Week beginning 8th July 2024. We’re expecting our final delivery of larch today and we are all fired up to finish the last bit of cladding on the mega-shed. While we are waiting we are getting on with some wee jobs – Molly is sanding down the last few filler fixes on the plaster ready… Continue reading Week One hundred and ten

Week beginning 1st July 2024. It’s Tuesday night and we have just arrived back on the bus, we have been in Edinburgh again for a variety of family reasons. It’s nice to get away and it’s nice to come home again. ______________________________ It’s Wednesday and we are back to working through our snagging list –… Continue reading Week One hundred and nine

Week beginning 24th June 2024. It has been a fun week with Nicky and Graham and the weather has been mostly kind. It has given us a chance to have a more restful time, away from finishing the house. On Monday we took a wee trip to Luing, one of the slate isles off the… Continue reading Week One hundred and eight

Week beginning 17th June 2024. Enjoying another journey back home after a visit to Edinburgh and dinner with Eddie and the family. We travel this route quite a bit but never get tired of the changing landscape as we move from the central belt and into Argyll. Cate has invited us to dinner but instead… Continue reading Week One hundred and seven

Week beginning 10th June 2024. Another week begins and we need to go to Oban for more timber so we can finish the skirting and the handrail. Kevin has arrived to finish the last bit of landscaping. We are on our way to see our mechanic, Damian, to find out if there is a scrap… Continue reading Week One hundred and six

Week beginning 3rd Junbe 2024. There was no post last week because Molly and Pete were in Edinburgh helping Ursula, Pete’s mum, move back into her home. Last October, just as her new kitchen was being finished, she had a fire that destroyed the kitchen and caused extensive smoke damage in the rest of her… Continue reading Week One hundred and five

Week beginning 20th May 2024. Molly is on her own this week as Pete is off to Zurich for his uncle’s funeral. A sad time. Pete spent most of his summers as a child and teenager with Hugo and his aunt, Maggie in Zurich and is feeling very emotional about the journey. After dropping Pete… Continue reading Week One hundred and three

Week beginning 13th May 2023. We are starting the week with wee jobs, first we are doing a couple of wee bits of finishing on the mezzanine flooring. Now we are doing a big tidy up of the mega-shed and house, putting away tools and cleaning the mess from cutting all those bamboo floorboards. The… Continue reading Week One hundred and two

Week beginning 6th May 2024. It’s the early May Bank Holiday and we are feeling a bit fragile after a bit too much celebrating Steve’s retirement. It ended up being a very late night for us. Our friends Paul and Kate have come for a visit, so we are taking the day off to enjoy… Continue reading Week One hundred and one

Week beginning 29th April 2024. This is our hundredth week of building our house and it has taken far longer than we could ever have imagined. Luckily for us there are no outside pressures to get it finished so we can keep our stress levels down. There are stresses, often because of communication between us,… Continue reading Week One hundred