A year has gone by, and lots has happened! After the fire the builders put a rubber-like membrane to cover the first floor from the...

2020 Cider Harvest, what better time to open a bottle than on New Year's eve, the day before leaving?

So many things have happened since the last post. COVID being one.. In Leskobet, the house has been painted, had all new guttering...

Trees are bursting with apples, its harvest time!

Been to the quarry to pick out some stone, and will be starting with a semi-circle under the tree where the bench sits, then a path to...

Planning permission has come through. The demolition people had built a temporary roof structure, had to remove all the debris, they did...

This is a project on itself - but already had some chillies, salad and cauliflower! It can get a bit damp in the field so beds had to...

Started sanding by hand, but not only did that create a mad amount of dust everywhere, it wasn't getting us anywhere fast either.. so...

Very exciting moment, after the picking, pressing, bottling, waiting - the tasting...

Started with taking out the dividing wall to the dining room.. Ok, we bought one unit from Ikea for the sink, but the rest we made...

27th of December 2018, a chimney fire destroyed the whole first floor and caused a lot of damage to the ground floor.. absolutely gutting...

All through the house there were tiles, walls, floors, everywhere.. Part I was to dig them all up and then remove the screed to get to a...

The steep banks meant they had to go via the neighbours, removed a hedge and the digger could get to work.. with some utilities below...

Been a busy spring, painting the outside and getting the garden ready...

Mirroring the other extension..

This is what the house was like when we bought it...

Christmas 2013, Snow in Ty Anquer

Who needs a drive around the garden?? To extend the lawn, that drive had to go.. all the pebbles were removed, the ground ploughed,...

A few trees were started in the beds in the vegetable boxes in the garden, the others purchased locally, some from Holland, and some from...