The garage planning permission came through a month or so after my application, but as yet I have not even started it. Come to that I haven’t done anything on the next door property. It’s a bit embarrassing thinking back to what I’ve been up to (or not!) in the last 7 months. I certainly haven’t been doing any building work !

We now have three chickens, and more eggs than it’s possible to eat. The chicken hut was built from scrap floorboards and building materials at no cost. Basic but the chickens seem happy and are laying eggs.

The garden has had a bit of work done. Some fencing around the boundary and Debs planted loads of hedge cuttings from an old bush in the garden. I would say about 80% have taken so once the hedge sprouts a bit more the garden won’t look so barren.

I treated myself to a new desktop computer. It was built from bits I got mail-order and, like to old PC, is running Linux. The old Linux box has been moved to the lounge and using MythTV has morphed into a home entertainment system. I’m glad I put all the ethernet cabling in when I renovated as I can now stream satellite TV from the DVB-S card in the new office PC to the box in the lounge connected to the TV. Several Terrabytes of storage means I can record TV ‘just in case’ on several channels at once.

Finished a few very minor bits of work around the house, but the lounge is still raw plasterboard ! I think I got so tired after moving in I relaxed and never quite got out of the habit!

Hopefully, I’ll try a make a few more updates in future, but I guess a bit less focused on renovation.