Firstly we've discovered we've got a magnolia tree in the front garden - it's absolutely beautiful, fairly old and IT FLOWERS! I've never had one that actually has flowers before...
And then there are the mice. They're very cute. We spotted three outside the front window, along a piece of concrete where there are umpteen holes. So presumably there are umpteen mice...
If they're not living in the holes by the concrete they might be living in the very big hole under the house. Oh yes. When Vincent and Sarah visited Vincent noticed that the dining room has a sprung floor. The sitting room has tiles. Hmmm. Then when I was hoovering, Guy was in the lean-to workroom outside the house and realised he could hear the hoover REALLY clearly. Too clearly. There's a vent in what is the wall of the house, he shone a torch in and - BIG HOLE UNDER HOUSE. We have no idea what it is, why it's there, or whether there are any bodies in it. Eek.
So our plan of 'get the Aga in as soon as possible' has gone out of the window - we need to know what's under the floor, we may need to get it sorted out, and then we can do the floors. Sigh. We're getting very good at baked potatoes and beans in the microwave...
The fencing is finished, which is just as well as Mopsi has discovered the delights of chasing rabbits and would chase them halfway across Monmouthshire if there wasn't now a fence in the way. She still tends to look totally the wrong way while the bunnies jump up and down behind her.
See - fence.
We haven't yet taken a picture of the fence by the horse field - it has 3 rails and we look like a stud farm, which was kind of the idea. We love it!
This coming weekend we are on a course to learn how to build dry stone walls. Well, it is my birthday...
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