Steel is in and drains are being cut.

Today we finally started to see the size of the main room as the steelwork is now in and the wall is part down. It will be a fantastic space!

The nibbs have been rebuilt and the old timber lintels taken out. It's amazing how good the 130 year old wood looked.....the Victorians really knew how to build houses that last.

As we are moving the kitchen the drain has to be rebuilt. So, the yard has been dug up and we found part of the old water storage tank from the time when these cottages didn't have running water!. As you can see this has confused poor Nila and he took ages to find a way into the cottage. Getting out was even worse....he's no mountain goat that dog.

Over the past few weeks the hens have been quite entertaining and follow me around the garden, maybe it's the corn I keep treating them to. They are real characters and if you have the space we recommend you get some. Here's a picture of them taking a bath, the dust was really flying.