Saturday, September 22, 2012

Painting the Chapel

The plasterers have been in all week, so today we were able to get the paint rollers out.  Jenny worked very hard and painted almost everything below 3 feet, including most of herself. 
The painting will be a mamouth task, but it's nice to feel that we have at least made a start. 

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Cotswolds


We have been living, eating, sleeping and breathing our extension project for the last few months but last weekend brought a little oasis of calm among the stress as we literally "got away from it all" with a visit to Lizzy in the Cotswolds.  And what better way to de-stress than to visit the beautiful gardens at Hidcote, with it's huge collection of hydrangeas.  I can't remember what this is one is called (Lizzy?) but it was one of my favourites. 






































And then on Sunday a trek across the fields took us to yet another place of zen-like calm, Lizzy's ceramics studio.  In true generation game style, we watched the expert at work and then all had a go at "throwing" (which I discovered means anything but, which might explain why I was never any good at this at school).  
Thanks Lizzy for a great weekend. 



Wednesday, September 05, 2012

First day at school

It has been an exciting day for our little Jennifer as she started school today.  James proudly directed her to her coat peg and book tray before going to his own class (which incidentally made him a little late - oops bad call mummy, didn't look too good walking into his new class still in his coat while all the other children were sitting down chiming "good morning" to the teacher - sorry Mrs Vanns!)  But the rest of the day went well and they both came home full of beans and excited about another day at school tomorrow.

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Beautiful house

From the outside it almost looks finished, but the inside is a completely different picture.  Probably another six weeks to go, but we are very excited about how it's progressing, and longing for the day when we can live in it again.