Yorkshire Cottage

It's been another day's hard work, getting paths cleared and gravel put down. We had a lighter moment to start with, putting Sir Mau...

While we were visiting Jenny and Philip, Jenny wanted a hand decorating a dolls house she'd found on Freecycle. It's a scale model o...

We're in Herefordshire for a few days, visiting Liz's parents. Today we went round Hampton Court, which isn't Hampton Court Pala...

More gravel, today! The steps down from near the greenhouse are done, and Liz has cleared (almost) the long path from them along the edge of...

Gravel is heavy. Not a surprise, but a bit of a pain when one has a ten ton heap of it to move. Anyway, we've got it down onto most of t...

We've spent today getting the downstairs bathroom to the verge of finished. The last dozen tiles are cut and fixed; Liz has grouted; I...

We've been away for a few days with David and Ann, which has been very relaxing. The usual activities: games, coffee, knitting, films. L...

This afternoon we've done most of the tiling needed in the downstairs bathroom, having also put in the skirting boards. There are ab...

We had a rather leisurely morning yesterday, after a long day on Saturday. I spent the morning playing with some IT (getting the FreeSat...

It's been a really quite varied weekend, with different things each day; it's been rather fun. Today, we went to the Thorne sal...

It's mostly been a weekend of construction, in one way or another. On Saturday we continued work on the beehive insulation: painting the...

It's the time of year when the bees start to retreat into their hive, ready for winter, which they'll spend clustered together, gra...

We've had a lovely weekend with David and Ann in Rothwell, where we congregated at roughly the midpoint between our homes, to avoid havi...

A couple of busy weekend days talking with the bees, as it's coming to the end of the season, and things need to be wrapped up (figurati...

Plenty of progress on the downstairs bathroom this weekend! The new floor has gone down (the left over oak from the kitchen ; I knew I had h...

The downstairs bathroom renovation is going really well. On Saturday afternoon, while Liz plastered the back wall of the preservatory, I ...

Saturday was mostly spent peering inside beehives, and counting bees (answer: lots, broadly). They're definitely slowing down, now, for...

Just a few photos from this week. All &copy Ian 2017

Nothing exciting this weekend, but good progress on a few things. We spent most of Saturday painting windows (a bit late in the year, but he...

It's been a while, but we had many of our university friends here for the weekend; all on Saturday, and they left in waves on Saturday, ...

So much paint. It's been a busy few days, since David and Ann left, getting work done on the preservatory and workshop, mainly so t...

It's been a weekend of splendid relaxation, aided immeasurably by the company of Ann and David. There has been considerable coffee drink...