Skip and trees

I won't lie. With all this lovely weather, progress has been slow.

But we have a skip now!

So we can finally move all our crap and have our front garden looking less like a scrap yard...

Andy has started trying to level the area where the shed used to be as this will also be parking eventually. We are debating over if it should be gravel or paving. Andy wants paving as he thinks gravel will be a pain with the leaves but I want gravel because I think it looks better and it looks pretty and you can hear people walking on it. Safety first!

We had another tree surgeon come round. He explained why our quotes were so high. Basically, it's more than a 1 man job as the trees are over a road, someone needs to keep and eye on traffic and help lower the branches.

He did say that the chestnut trees are diseased and they will be dead within the next 10 years which is sad to hear.

That does however explain why the conkers and leaves are falling down. It's very noisy when they hit the caravan!

We're still going to get them chopped back but depending how long we are there and if they will effect out extension will depend on when we decide to get them chopped down.

In other news, my good pal Lottie and Ben tied the knot last weekend :-)

Still no broadband. Apparently Plusnet need to send an engineer to the exchange to "make more room" for us?? Sounds like a cop out to me....

Life in a caravan

Good day!

It's been a while. We still haven't got Internet so I am making use of 3G!

We have been in the caravan for a couple of weeks now and the novelty hasn't worn off yet. 

Andy has made us a little walkway with a cover. We've put a shed up that my dad gave us which has become our clothes storage and washing area:

The shed is nearly as big at the house!

The toilet in the house is working so we are just using the caravan bathroom for showers. We bought this box which you plug into the 12v caravan battery and the gas bottle and it instantly squirts out hot water through a shower head. It works a treat! Although you have to go outside to turn it on and off. A minor inconvenience for the moment.

We haven't done any work on the house, but have been doing some work outside. We've tidied up the drive way so we can park our (my) cars on it.

Andy has also started trying to dig up the stumps for the two trees he chopped down so we can clear that area.

We've also been getting some quotes for a topographical survey and have managed to secure a good one. The architect has advised getting one would make the whole planning thing easier as they will be accurate. So, we need to get that done before we can see any drawings from him.

We've also been getting more tree surgery quotes. Really keen on getting the trees chopped back as it is so dark at the front. You sort of drive into a tunnel of trees when you reach our house. It's quite creepy, and a great shame to miss out on the light. We don't know what difference it will make as there are several other trees in close proximity, but we shall see!

We did a car boot to get rid of a lot of our stuff that we thought was too good to chuck but that we didn't want to keep and that went surprisingly well! We got rid of the majority and what was left was packed off to the charity shop.

An update on the field out the back: the beans are growing well! Andy had such joy on his face watching the tractor spraying the field the other week.

We're moved!

Lack of any updates due to moving!

I can safely say we are officially in! The caravan anyway...

I'll edit and update before the end of this week!