Day One

Where once there was a rear extension, now there is not. Our little jerry-built extension is now no more. I'm sure it served the previous owners well, but it was time to go. It made the kitchen very dark and (as I discovered when I explored a partition wall with a hammer and chisel) was shot through with woodworm.

The plan is to knock the kitchen together into a new extension and open the whole place up a bit. It will hopefully make for better light when photographing my cooking efforts on the blog...

I'll try to post regular updates on this one.... As we cook on our little baby belling up in the bedroom. Or something...

Summertime...

An unusually high view of the garden. Since it's summer, it can only be time to replace the shattered and crumbling slates on our back roof. The view is from the scaffolding...

Only M dared go up here though. Wouldn't catch me doing that...


Actually as part of all this we uncovered more of the unofficial Brockley trade in useful house stuff. You may remember a previous post about picking up four panel doors from outside people's houses.. Well, this time, we traded stone tiles that were still intact for a new radiator from one of our neighbours. Who needs freecycle...