ollibees

dance like nobody's watching

Second summer : getting plastered: It’s been one year, two months and eight days since the house build officially began. It’s been six months since our last post in February when we still had bare bricks and … Continue Reading →

Moving goal-posts: It’s a gloomy, cold, rainy February day. And yes, we are warmer now. It’s been nearly three months since our last post on the house build, so this one … Continue Reading →

Last push before the snow: It’s been a whole month since our last post and lots happened: small wins, big wins, progress on some fronts, hold-ups and delays on others, good stuff, not so good stuff, ups, downs… … Continue Reading →

The Great Expectations: The past two weeks brought enough frustration to last us until Christmas. All mostly in connection with the heating system components supply and roofing plastics. Our great expectations went unmet … Continue Reading →

Sleep-building: CAUTION : Julia is now a lady of leisure who has taken over the project management of the house build…. I have heard of sleep-walking but never caught anyone in … Continue Reading →

Grand(er) Design: Kevin McCloud would have loved us! We would have been the perfect Guiney pig project to televise. Kevin would have smirked and laughed and raised his eyebrow not once, not twice, but all the way through the one-hour episode! … Continue Reading →

Two-pea pod: Last weekend we migrated West, making room for the Phase 2 works on the house. Our life is now one of a two-pea pod, consisting of living-quarters and sleeping-quarters. In between these two … Continue Reading →

Insulation inundation: We had lots of it over the past few weeks! And there will be more to come. It’s in the walls and in the roof and in our hair and … Continue Reading →

Rain = Tarps: There is nothing like killing creativity and inspiration than a blog post that gets lost in cyber space! This is my second attempt to write this same post after the first draft mysteriously … Continue Reading →

Timbers everywhere!: There’s been nearly four weeks of no updates on the progress of the house (time flies), so there’s one well overdue… being written as we sway in our hammocks in +30C heat … Continue Reading →

Foundations’ fundamentals: We are solidly in the ground at last, as of last weekend! All remaining footings have been dug, backfilled with concrete, and remaining concrete slabs laid, which completes all our foundations! UK … Continue Reading →

In time for Wimbledon!: WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE WEATHER???!!!! Where is all this wind coming from?! So far the lack of decent sunshine for any extended period of time and the below +20C … Continue Reading →

Playing Puzzle Fifteen Indoors: We lost our master bedroom and living room to the build last weekend. The Puzzle Fifteen game commenced here! Most of our stuff is now either representing a chaotic mish-mash of beds, book cases, wardrobes … Continue Reading →

On going topless and the stone saga: We have the scaffolding in place at last (!), and the views from the first-floor-to-be are amazing! The past three days whizzed by, we are into June now and … Continue Reading →

Blue pipes: This Spring has certainly put hold onto many of the foodstuffs we are trying to grow this year. What a bore! There’s hardly any sunshine. And whenever there is some, it’s blowing Nordic … Continue Reading →

Pergola and things suspended: The past two weekends flew past in no time! A somewhat belated record of things been gone and done is well overdue. We had been lucky enough a few weeks ago … Continue Reading →

May Bank Holiday weekend – The Labour Day(s): First May Bank Holiday weekend saw us turning it into a 6-day break from the office and dedicating it to some enjoyable hard labour instead. It all started with the delivery … Continue Reading →