R & Z

At the Registry

The Register

Witnesses

Registrar filling in the book

The Wedding Breakfast

Foooood !!

The Restaurant

Out with the old

When we purchased the cottage it was in a poor state of repair and we decided to also purchase an old living caravan to use as we "did up" the house. The caravan has given very good service as both holiday accommodation and latterly as a store. However as the years have passed it has become increasingly damp and moldy so as the new shed was finished we took the chance to clear out the unwanted stuff and put the other "wanted" rubbish in the shed. Allan offered to come down for a few days and give a hand to demolish it as the vegitation had grown up around it and it was impossible to move without damaging other things. So out came the wrecking bars and the hammers and off we went

Once the walls were
down and burnt the
floor came up and
thechassis was cut up
into decent size for the
scrapman to shift






Then the area cleared up and left nearly neat and tidy

The next job is to complete the soak away where the blue bag is showing to give good drainage to the shed roof and then get a few tonnes of gravel delivered and make a good hard standing area.

ON A HAPPIER NOTE

As a side to the destruction and mayhem we should tell you that the shed has now been "adopted" by this years influx of Swallows who after a lot of chatter and false starts have built a nest in the roof

We also have a pair of residents who call for lunch each day


We have not seen them for a few days and assume that they are sitting on this years brood.

We have been busy

It has been quiet here for some time as we have been working hard painting both inside and outside. The Shed has been delayed time after time because of the weather. It has been quite extraordinary the change every time Michael tried to work on it. In the end he gave up and went on to other jobs until the weather improved. Then after a week of summer like weather he came back and it snowed!!! BUT we are now almost finished - only a window to fit.


















The wall - to stop the traffic calling in the bedroom - has also been built - block wall and then railway sleeper inner wall with a bed of bricks and broken tiles inbetween. On top of the infil will be soil and then strawberry plants.

















Looks good from up the road towards Boston

and the view from the house has been enhanced somewhat from a rusty old shed

An added bonus is that I have at last after 20 years got somewhere to keep all the old 78rpm records which I collected in the 1980s. As I unpacked the tea chests it was obvious that the rats had been using them for a nesting place but with a bit a tender care and a soapy water bath they will come up like new. Pity about the sleaves though. All nibbled and shredded.

As you can see the old paint brushes have taken a good bashing and I recon we have used about 100 litres of paint now and it all needs another coat. The next coat will be a lot easier now that the holes in the blocks have had their first coat.

Shed gets a lid on

After the Christmas and New Year holiday work has restarted on the shed which has now got the timbers up for the roof to go on. The wind has also decided to return so it may be a few days before the rest of the work can go ahead. The roof timbers have made a big change to the image and we can now see that the shed is almost as big as the bungalow we lived in on Spring Farm Lane. It is 40 feet long and 17 feet wide with two bays and a workshop. Below are some photos so that you can see the new work.

Above is the view from the South. The walls will be painted white instead of the horrible rusty brown which the shed had become before we demolished and rebuilt.

This next is the view we will have from the yard and house. I will burn off the excess paint from the reused brick leaving only the odd white one.

Robs bike is now dwarfed by the space made after the big clear out which gave us a good garden fire for two days and we spent a whole day going back and forth to the tip with the stuff which would not burn.

Eventually Rob, your bike and trailer will go up in the roof space resting on the ceiling joists out of the way and providing very good nesting sites!!!!!!!