It's a greenhouse and it's now got glass in it

Tuesday was Greenhouse Glazing Day (it was also Cesspit Emptying Day and Drain Survey Day, we believe in packing a lot in) and all went well with plenty of screws, plenty of glass and plenty of weird rubber stripping to cushion the capping. Plenty of everything then, apart from... sealant. Kind of crucial? Yep, we thought so. Which led us to whizzing down to Handyman House (yes, really, it's marvellous, every town should have one) in a hurry for sealant. We popped into Waitrose for supplies (gin and chocolate, thank you for asking) and lowered the tone nicely in our paint and cement spattered outfits. Everyone else had either a long skirt or a scarf (and that was just the men). Guy clutched the sealant so at least he looked like he was in the middle of a DIY job. I just looked scruffy and carried the basket...

It's finished... but....  yes, two buts actually. Oh, is it BUTT? Spelling, eh? Yes, two water-butts for the butt-end of the greenhouse so we can be eco friendly and collect rainwater. Absolutely nothing at all to do with being on a water meter. Nothing at all.

By the evening we were, perhaps not surprisingly, a bit tired so we flopped in front of the telly to watch that much hyped drama thingy with Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters.  We realised we weren't perhaps entirely on board when, in one particularly tense bit, we both found ourselves wondering if the big circle things over the hob really were extractor fans. And then admiring the pantry style kitchen unit...

We gave up.

There's a huge breeze block wall next to the greenhouse which is bog ugly, but also south facing, so quite useful. We had considered facing it with stone, and we'd also thought about painting it. We settled on trellis so that we can grow things up it - there's already something there, we think it might be a wisteria or two...  So we added trellis, gravel and planted a fabulous jasmine - Guy's birthday present (don't panic, you didn't miss it, it was in June) from the Lovely Caroline (my sister-in-law who does Most Excellent Presents).

All it needs now is a stone step outside, the staging and shelf to be put in place inside and some plants. Of course, we now realise that we've built this lovely greenhouse when we won't actually be living in the cottage next year because we'll be building and it'll be muddy and we'll forget to plant things or grow things and... oh well, it'll be ready for the year after!

Clearly we are presuming we'll be building next year.  We should have heard about planning permission this week but we haven't.  Tense?  Us?

Yep.