Here's a little bit of history. If you look at the picture below of Mad Woman Jackie (seriously -would you tackle Jackie the MW armed with a sledge hammer) attacking concrete and compare it to that above the big difference is the original stone flagged floor is visible (it was hidden under 2 layers of solid concrete). So here's an interesting connection about...
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Time to meat (oops) some of the neighbors. We have opened up the gates to our land as the sheep are quite handy at cutting the grass. One thing we have discovered is sheep come in several versions (and I don't just mean breeds). In general sheep tend to run once you get near but we have noticed some other types. First...
Most of the rooms have obtained a name during the build. The smallest bedroom has become the woodland room (well it has a view of the woods in front - how simple is that). Above you can see it had a view of nothing as we still had a tin roof at this stage which made a wonderful (correction - horrendous) noise when...
I mentioned to Susan the other day that its so nice to now be able to work at the barn and then have a hot bath and change of clothes BEFORE the drive home. So here's the bathroom at the moment and below how it was a couple of years ago. We wanted the bathroom to use the original small window above the...
Progress.. The barn now has a new boundary dry stone wall - new oak doors and windows - a reclaimed welsh slate roof - a lick of paint and of course some pretties . Now Mad Woman simply has to re point every single stone on the exterior in a white lime motar. It used to look like this On the opposite side...
