Plumbing
We’re very excited that work on the house begins this week, with the plumber starting on Friday! We are hoping to have the slab laid by Christmas, but we are content to ‘wait and see.’ My biggest stress is not getting straw bales this season. If we cannot get the straw this season we will […]
Goings ons
I have been a slack blogger of late. Partly by choice and partly not. I’ve had a revelation that if people actually wanted to know what is going on in our little life then they would make contact with us. So why should I blog? The other part of me has not been blogging because […]
Great news for Fangorn
Our current exciting news is that we have finally received building approval for our house! That means that we can start working on it! It is a great milestone for us but we are still waiting on plumbing quotes. One plumbing quote was $5000 beyond our budget. Some quotes have been well above our budget […]
Building progress:
Life is fairly busy at Fangorn; children, animals and every day business keeps us occupied. We’ve had some visitors at our place recently, which has been lovely, but it has rendered us slightly fatigued! We now have a plumbing permit. This means that we can begin the plumbing work for our house. We have a […]
Fangorn Residents and Residence
I’m going for Peter Cundall. Burke has always annoyed me to a degree, and I am a fan of Pete. If those two are at loggerheads over the logs, I’m with the blooming marvellous man. When we first moved into this – er -cabin on December 31 2007 (Monte’s 21+10th birthday), it was a pretty […]
All happening here at Fangorn
We have been so busy of late that I have not had the time to blog. Plus we’ve been sick. A few things are happening at Fangorn. We are getting ready for the Goulding snrs’ visit next week. For a few weeks now, I have been sorting and clearing and making space in the playroom […]
Snow drops keep falling on my head
Whilst we are warm and cosy in our little cabin, it is freezing outside. I’m not using a metaphor; it literally is freezing! It snowed last night at Fangorn. I was very giggly and excited to see and feel the fat drops of white falling everywhere. They splatted on the ground like a delicate bird […]
Power Issues
For a while Monte and I have been debating the issue of grid power versus off grid power. Obviously there are pros and cons for each. Hence the long debate. A while ago now, Monte and I decided that we would connect to grid power ie mains electricity. We thought that it would be a […]
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