Anniversary

Today's the first anniversary of moving into the cottage. It's been a fun year; stressful to start with (I hate moving house, and being unemployed!), but it's picked up considerably. We're both (all, if you count the cats) really pleased with the house, and garden, and location. Progress on the house and garden has been a bit slow, necessitated by jobs, and weather: but I'm hoping to get on a bit over the next year.

Building the fruit beds, and really improving the front garden have been the highlights in the garden: inside, we've changed the utility room (and made it much more useful), and installed a lot of insulation, and the new windows. The next big change will be the kitchen, and—hopefully—the vegetable plot.

As a result of reaching this milestone, I don't think I can keep the profile entry to the right the same. I'll be updating it in a minute, but here, for posterity, is the current entry:

New resident of Yorkshire (just on the 'right' side of the Pennines), having moved up here in August.

I started this blog mainly as a gardening log, as it seemed a more interesting way to do it than in a notebook, as I can add links to things, photos, and tag posts. It's already branched out into cooking exploits, too, but it's unclear yet whether anyone else will ever read it.