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
Author: Pete Ross
After years of living in a beautiful Victorian flat in Edinburgh, Molly and I have decided to sell up and build our new house ourselves in Argyll, Scotland. We have called it Gar Bothan which is Gaelic for warm bothy or cottage or hovel!!!!
Week Nine – Part Two
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 Nine
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
Week Eight – Part Two
Another early start, first thing is to check that the concrete has set with a nice even surface for the sewage treatment works to sit on. Success so now Lorne is getting on with lifting it into place and Pete is helping a little. There isn’t too much he can do other than partially fill… Continue reading Week Eight – Part Two
Week Eight
It’s Monday and we have had a message from Lorne to say that he isn’t coming today because our delivery has not arrived yet and won’t be here until this afternoon. He said in his text message: “Just don’t want to charge you to sit about.” Week beginning 25th July. Molly is off to Oban… Continue reading Week Eight
Week Seven – Part Two
We are taking some time out and have moved into the holiday home with the rest of the family now that some people have gone home and there’s a free bedroom. We are going for a walk up the hill to work off our dinner and although it’s a bit wet and overcast we still… Continue reading Week Seven – Part Two
Week Seven
Week beginning 18th July. On Saturday morning we had some visitors from next door. We wake at 7.30 to the sound of a digger but it’s not on our plot! It’s now 8am and as we settle down for breakfast Lorne arrives to start digging which throws us in a panic because we are not… Continue reading Week Seven
Week Six
Week beginning 11th July. We are leaving Tarbert Holiday Park after six weeks and moving our caravan up to our plot with the help of Molly’s cousin, Duncan. It has been good staying here not least because of all the friendly staff and the holiday makers and workmen who have been staying here. A big… Continue reading Week Six
Saddell Bay and back up the Atlantic coast
Today is our last chance for a while to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Kintyre so we are heading off to Saddell Bay down past Carradale on the shores of Loch Fyne. We are taking the scenic single track route down the coast towards Carradale, a long and winding but breathtakinly lovely route. We are… Continue reading Saddell Bay and back up the Atlantic coast
Week Five – Part Two
We’re on to our final tasks in the workshop this week and are reorganising the last stack, wrapping it in plastic to protect it from the elements and to making sure all the stacks are in the right order for when the lorry comes to transport them up to our plot. We are also cutting… Continue reading Week Five – Part Two