Category: Building Gar Bothan diary

Week beginning 4th September 2023. We went to Edinburgh late on Friday evening and on the way we stopped for a delicious pizza from Luti’s Pizza Parlour in Callander. On Saturday Molly joined the many thousands who joined the march, All Under One Banner, to the Scottish parliament. On Saturday evening we went to a… Continue reading Week Sixty-six

Week beginning 28th August 2023. We are up early because we are expecting our electrician and hopefully the guys to finish doing the high bits of plasterboarding. We’ve been working hard to get things ready – clearing space and tidying up – so that they can just get on with what they have to do.… Continue reading Week Sixty-five

Week beginning 21st August 2023. At the end of last week Pete had a call from his mum cancelling her visit due to ill-health. We are very sad about this as Ursula is so keen to come and see our progress and hasn’t been here since last autumn. Jenny, Pete’s Swiss cousin, was going to… Continue reading Week Sixty-four

Week beginning 14th August 2023. We had the weekend off to celebrate our granddaughter Caitlin’s birthday with a family meal. On Sunday we took her and her friend to the EICA at Ratho to try out some rock climbing. ______________________________ It’s another week and once again we are hoping for the scaffolding to be taken… Continue reading Week Sixty-three

Week beginning 7th August 2023 Another week begins but it’s going to be a bit different as we are expecting our son, Eddie, and our grandchildren, Niven and Caitlin, to visit for a few days and at the end of the week Pete’s former colleague, Alex. Pete is going to work a half day today,… Continue reading Week Sixty-two

Week beginning Monday 31st July 2023. It’s Tuesday morning and we are back at Gar Bothan after a weekend of camping with our grandchildren, Molly’s sister Ish and her three grandchildren. We had a great time camping on cousin Mairi and Andrew’s land near Abernethy. The weather was mostly kind to us so we could… Continue reading Week Sixty-one

Week beginning 24th July 2023 Another Monday morning and still lots to do. The weather is dry, so we are going to work on the detail of the west gable at the apex of the cladding and where the cladding meets the soffits. If we can we are going to try and put a bit of… Continue reading Week Sixty

Week beginning 17th July 2023. Zadj and Carolyn are still here and are offering to do more to help so now that we have had brreakfast we can get on with it. Pete is fixing the extra bit of angled wall at the foot of the straight staircase while Zadj and Molly are fixing battens… Continue reading Week Fifty-nine

Week beginning 10th July 2023. On Saturday we went to Oban for the usual round of dumping, shopping and showering and in the evening we invited our new neighbours round for something to eat. We set up a table in the house and had dinner there. Cate and Steve told us about their plans to… Continue reading Week Fifty-eight

Week beginning 3rd July 2023. We had a lovely walk down to Inverawe with our visitors on Sunday. ______________________________ It’s Monday morning and we have an exciting day ahead because Solargyll, the electricians, are coming. We know this because Pete checked his email while still in bed and there was one from the electrician saying… Continue reading Week Fifty-seven