O.M.G.

Aaaarrrghhhh! Where to start?! Well, the mud might be a good place...

We started the week with this:

Which is very pretty!  Nice trees, lovely grass, very civilised.

And now?

Ooh. The idea is to create somewhere for vehicles, somewhere to store materials and a solid base to enable everyone to get up the hill to the house. It's not finished yet - we're still sliding all over the place in the car, to the extent that today Guy said 'when can we go and look at 4x4s?' 

Maybe we'll get Wednesday's move into the rental over first, eh?

So what else happened? Ah, yes... 

We went from this (yes, I know, old photo...)

To this:

To be fair, that could be a picture of another piece of woodland - but it isn't, it's the SAME BIT! Yep, the old tin barn has gone. So much gone that you'd hardly know it had ever been there...

And we had Meetings. On Wednesday the lovely Tom from Welsh Oak came - he's the frame designer and he was doing the final measuring up before the next stage can start. We had to really think about what we wanted and how we wanted things finished. And whether we wanted doors (yes please). And that a whole wall will have to come out to accommodate the stairs. And that there might not be a chimney for the Aga flue to go up (kind of crucial).

On Saturday BOB came round and we had even more decisions to make. The upshot of this meeting was that when we've moved out on Wednesday, his lads will start on Thursday - pulling plaster off the internal walls, digging up the floors, taking out the odd wall or two... At one stage we discussed removing the roof before Christmas (WHAT???) but we're now starting with the floors and walls instead. 

The cottage will look VERY different by next weekend...

Ooh, er - it's getting a bit real, isn't it?