We have been up here, on site, for exactly two months today. We are enjoying it all but we still have no news about the ‘go ahead’ to build our house. We are trying to cope with the good, and bad bits of our situation, but just sometimes it gets a little wearing.
When the ruin was demolished, the only bit that was left intact at the end was the old and very woodworm eaten, hand made, front door. It was left to one side for us to use and eventually incorporate into something at a later stage, after the house is finished. We have seen some really nice arch ways that have old doors in them so we wanted to keep this relic. We also wanted the roof beams/logs and the old tiles from the ruin but this instruction obviously was too complicated for anyone to understand so it was all bulldozered/JCB’d into the flattened plot.
Anyway, today I was constructing further ‘sea defences’ (it looks quite impressive, even if I do say so myself) and looked at this sad door laid on the ground with the outside part of the door on the underneath side. I said to myself ‘no wonder things are taking so long, the door is insulted at having been laid the wrong way up. The outside should be on the up side‘. So I actually turned the whole thing over so that the outside is now uppermost. Now that is a really sad superstition isn’t it, ……………..or is it???? We’ll see.
We have been told that weather forecast says that we will have rain from Saturday until Tuesday next week, that’ll test my sea defences out.