The calm before the storm ....
We are currently waiting for the final council go-ahead to start our much anticipated renovation. It certainly has been a long time in the making given that we engaged our architects over a year ago. Our chosen builder is champing at the bit and ready to start and we are slowly coming around to the idea that we will be living on a building site for the foreseeable future. We are busy transforming our second bedroom into a living room, our third bedroom into a store and parts of the shed into a kitchen! The next seven to nine months are likely to be a trifle challenging, so to find some inspiration I looked back through some photos to remind myself of how much we have achieved since we first came down to stay for six months in August 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. One of the first things we did on arrival was to sort out the drainage around the shed. August of 2020 was reasonably wet and the area around the shed was a quagmire. This August and September have been even wett
