Author: Harpsbridge
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8th – 11th September
This weekends guest workers were Phil and Wendy. Thanks Chaps! …with Andy supervising the grass cutting A trip to Alford. Some nice buildings, And they were auctioning second hand wares on a corner of the market – ye olde equivalent of a pound shop? And as we’d had the chimneys swept, it would […]
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25 August -3 September – Long, long weekend
So this was a much longer visit overall, a long bank holiday weekend, stretched into two weekends, and the week in between. There was a changing workforce, from just me for a couple of days, with up to 5 some days. It was generally good weather so once Christine had gone, more work […]
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Weekend 3 -17/20th August
Another long weekend, and those helpful elves are back again… Painting and plastering Rebuilding the stairs Cutting the grass (Again…) Taking down fences Clearing the goat’s stable Tidying fruit bushes, picking grapes and tomatoes, fixing shelves, testing the new wagon and finding butterflies in an old feeder
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Weekend 2 – 10/13th August
A long weekend. And lots of help. Christine came down to scope out the decorating required, and Dad and Dorothy came to assist in the mobile country cottage. Lawn mower was commissioned and tested Orchard tidied, and a few apples picked Meals were eaten Ceilings were painted and things were measured Wood from store demolition […]
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Weekend 1 – 4/5th August
First trailer full of ‘stuff” delivered. We had to park a fair way from the house, so that lead to job 1 – Demolition of the add on wood store. Almost complete – still a pile of wood to sort and move next week. And job 2 – adventuring into the orchard. By judicial […]
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Old Aerial View
This picture, dated 2003 on the back, was left in the house. It shows the general layout of the land, although a lot has been changed since then. You can see the original 2 semis, and the two storey extension. Missing are all outbuildings apart from the brick workshop.