Ellie
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Another building update!!!
James and I spent half term at the smallholding with both sets of parents and a variety of buildery types!!! Ladies and gentlemen we have some progress to report!!!! We have electrification!!!!!!! We have radiators installed!!!!!! Heating upstairs!!! Flues and working stoves downstairs!!!! Exciting times!!!!
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Hedging!!
Our lovely neighbour leant us a new toy last week!!!! So we spent a few days cutting the overgrown hedge and chipping it into a partial path down the side of the orchard!! One hedge done loads more to go……
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New bits of building work!!
A few more bits of building work….. An in place stove!!! Some more plumbing and electrics… A plastered hall and lounge…..
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Water water everywhere!!!
When will all this rain stop?!?!?? The road flooded, because soooo much silt came down… And blocked the drains… The winter stream with more water flow than ever before… Swirling away down the partially cleared drain….
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Baby baby baby!!!!
As I posted weeks ago now….. James and I are expecting!! We found out a few weeks ago we are having a little boy!!! Definitely a boy and picking his nose and laughing about on some of the other pictures too!!!!
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Last weekend!!!
More work done!!!!!!! A plastered kitchen and utility!!!!!!!! And a boarded lounge!!!!!!! Hurrah!!!!!!
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Oh no we’ve sprung a leak!!!
Poor tin hut….. One metal strut rusted right through!!! Now filled with expanding foam and externally covered by tin sheeting!!
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Two weeks ago at the holding!!!
Building work central!!!!!!!! The boys have been working hard!!! Plaster boarding downstairs Plastering upstairs!!!! It’s looking really rather good!!
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Front steps!!!
Over half term James and his father carefully built a whole set of concrete, brick and paving slab steps!!!!! Don’t they look fantabulous!!!!!!!! Clever husband and father in law!!!!!!!