Month December 2024

Ian has finished the stove and we are waiting now for a couple of days before we can light it and see how it works! The cast iron top had been painted, as you can see in the pic below:…

The stove is taking shape! Ian’s built the inside sections and attached the front… Next Ian will be finishing the inside and then attaching the top. We have to wait a couple of weeks before lighting it as we need…

The stove is beginning to take shape! The black facia in the photo above isn’t fixed in place yet as Ian needs to do the brickwork behind it. He’s got thermal bricks which he will build the main body of…

We’re saying good bye to our stove. We’ve never really used it – something to do with the rich mix of gas and wood burner put us off. It would have been quite a thing in its day (it is…

and holding a drain rod? Well – having rediscovered Daisy’s luminous ball and enjoyed a couple of mins playing outside, her ball went down a little drainage tunnel under the front of the house and got stuck. And there is…