February destruction....

The concrete is up but the hardcore
replacement is not pretty.

Can this door become a cold frame?

10 February 2018

Can’t see the wood for the destruction...

I was hoping to be bringing good news but I can’t even see the garden for building detritus. We have an enclosed space for the new kitchen but with delays ordering a kitchen, the builders have gone where they can be busy leaving me (us) very cold and a little bemused. We have a lovely sense of the potential for the space but are huddling by the woodburner trying to keep warm. It is February and it is freezing. We missed out on deep snow but it felt like we had snow inside at points.

Boxes of sanitary ware lurk in every spare corner as the builders wouldn’t leave us without a sink... despite my probably impractical pleas of well we will have a bathroom! Kitchen is due to arrive in a few weeks - will I cope? - and boy, you should see the mess in what used to be our garden!

I rather optimistically bought some more bulbs and despite the heavy boot prints of builders, there is sign of some of last years planting struggling through the building muck, and growing despite planks of scaffolding being dumped inappropriately. I might have some new flowers to populate the blog in March. Watch this space?

Abandoned trugs...

Drainage holes...

The skylights are stunning!