This is just so far out of date! I need to do a serious re-write, first sections is coming together nicely, kitchen is nearly done, bedroom almost finished, this week will see “nearly” and “almost” finished
things are finally back on track, this week we have been tiling, plastering, wiring and cutting back trees.
we are hoping to be able to start preparing the vegy patch soon, we have now come up with a great plan to irrigate it from the moat, we have been getting all out seeds, potatoes, unions etc, [...]
Long time no blog! sorry guys, its been hectic, not much done on the castle I’m afraid, we have been busy with work, then the weather as been unusually bad, and to top it all we was hit quite badly with the storm last week, 150km winds, we lost power and phone for 2 days, [...]
Happy new year everyone, thats it for another year : )
Today is day 2 of being a non smoker, yesterday was hard work, but today is a little better, i had purchased a electronic cig to help me along if things got difficult, but that was about 6 months ago, leaving it stood doing nothing [...]
The weather as been quite bad lately, last week we got snowed in at a friends house for 4 days, really strange for this area, normally we never see snow, and on the rare occasion we do it never sticks.
So with a hectic social calender for the festive season we have decided to leave work [...]
Ive had a lot of work to do the last few days, work on the internet I mean, so not done as much on the castle as i would have liked.
Wilmer our pot bellied pig who follows me everywhere came to work with me today, unfortunately she isn’t much help, she is content to lye [...]
Our Pygmy goats, Billy, Milly and Cher have moved out YIPPEE…..
I’m a little sad to see them go, but i wont miss the smell of Billy. It was difficult as sometimes we are away for a few days and although we have someone who feeds the animals while we are away, the goats have been [...]
Well for some time now our goats billy and milly have been getting out, this baffled us as we have checked all boarders, and highered a lot of the fencing, anyway, today we found out how they were doing it.
Well after my comitment to the bathroom things didnt quite pan out, Rachael slept in a funny possition and her shoulder was giving her some jip, i fell through the hole on the floor left for the staircase and damaged my leg and arm, so neither of us were capable of lifting the plaster boad [...]
Well last week i didn’t get much done, was busy with work, i got one afternoon in, Ive made up for it today, had a really good day and got all the tracking done for the bathroom and framed out the office.
Im going to make sure i get plenty in this week, also we have [...]
