Doors are in!

More progress! Doors are now in... and some insulation.. and some plasterboard. We are still pondering kitchens (wooden work surfaces or laminate - apparently, according to the Geer, as I am so clumsy I probably can't be trusted with expensive wooden surfaces so laminate may be the best... but mmm well wood does look very very nice), ovens (to rangemaster or not to rangemaster)... flooring... lighting... boilers (to take advantage of boiler scrapage scheme or not)... argh. My mind is like a DIY/Kitchen shop. I think we were supposed to decide a lot of this, this weekend, but we haven't really got that far!

From the outside... still a mess... still no roof... but it has potential!

Taking a break fro DIY up at the allotment. Have sourced some free wood from an allotting neighbour with a large supply. Plan is to use it to build a raspberry cage to protect our 6 new raspberry plants from savage birds.

Crocuses growing in the broken sink, salvaged from an abandoned allotment.
Its broken recycled-ness seems to fit in at the allotment where any thing that can be used in any way, is. Our "shed" (The Ginger Villa) is made of old doors... and our "water butt" is made of an old water tank. Our neighbour has a scarecrow made of bits of old bike... and a water harvesting device which includes a TV remote (random) and a long long sheet of salvaged corrugated iron.

So long mini people.
Hils and I say goodbye to the lovely Richardson's as they move to the Solomon Islands... very very far far away :o(
... but we do look forward to updates from the beach...