Category: External
Views of the property from the outside

July 30
I have organised to import 40 tonnes of topsoil to give a shallow cover over the existing earth and to fill the flower beds I have had to mark out the contours of the flower ....

July 29
Time to start the internal wall structures and tidy the workshop now that it is electrified only to find another visitor in the rear store that has got stuck in a bucket. I took it ....

July 24
The gravel arrives on a lorry and trailer. While I hold the cables up above the entrance archway, the bags are hoisted over the wall and positioned for their bottoms to be sliced open to ....

External Slabs 7
It's Sunday and I am back again as the tilers insist on working the weekend and I want to oversee what they are doing. Front patio BBQ/Workshop (almost finished) Front bike store. Preparing the rear ....

PV Panels 11
While the slabs continued to be laid I turned my attention to wiring the PV panels control unit. The blue and white wires connect to sensors around each cable that reads the current and gives ....

External Slabs 5
Friday was a complex day. I started by driving via Cognac to collect Metawaley and bring him here to start working. Then off to Saintes for another length of cable to connect the PV controller ....