by adminUS | Oct 6, 2019 | Cottage
As the cottage has no heating so no existing pipework we’ve decided underfloor heating is the way to go. However as the building has gone from four cottages, to two when we bought them, to one now, it means we have different floor levels, poured at different...
by adminUS | Oct 3, 2019 | Cottage
The demolition begins There’s been lots of posts about the garden while we decided a plan of action for the cottage, and now it’s time to start phase 1… First job was to take down a stud wall… which was a good job as the base timber was rotten...
by adminUS | Sep 30, 2019 | Garden
So pleased with how the veggie garden is coming along, lots of potatoes, salad, radishes, peppers, chillis, courgettes…. and this is just from a late planted, temporary...
by adminUS | Sep 28, 2019 | Other
It wouldn’t be countryside living without a village summer show. The beginning of September brought us harvest time in the field behind the house (luckily without too many field mice storming towards the house to escape the combine!), and the Humshaugh Village...
by adminUS | Sep 25, 2019 | Other
August Bank Holiday was spent at a fabulous little music festival, The Homestead Gathering, in Chollerton. Run by Richard and Meryl, and with all profits going to a range of national and local charities, it was an amazing weekend of music in the sun. One of the best...
by adminUS | Sep 22, 2019 | Garden
It’s been a busy month or two, with floods, festivals and village fetes. But first… at the beginning of August the rain came causing some flooding and proving why we need to bring big diggers in next year to move the drainage channel at the back of the...
by adminUS | Jul 28, 2019 | Garden
The vegetable patches are coming along nicely since we stopped the rabbit from getting in to nibble everything. We have more radishes than we know what to do with and we should have potatoes up until Christmas (fingers crossed!). The squash might be a bit too late in...
by adminUS | Jul 24, 2019 | Garden
Now this one was a first for us… our friendly pheasant has discovered our bird feeder and it turns out he loves it – easy pickings if you can jump! I still can’t believe how close he comes to the house, if we leant out of the window we could almost...
by adminUS | Jul 21, 2019 | Garden
Our swallow chicks have flown the nest… but just before they left we got some footage of them squishing their nest and flapping around. Mum and dad are still around and happily living in the outhouse, but babies have gone to find their own way. If the parents...
by adminUS | Jul 18, 2019 | Garden
We took advantage of the dry weather to get the chainsaw out and attack the trees that were growing far too close to the cottage. One was an ash tree and I have no idea what the other’s were but we, when I say we I mean Mike, chopped them down and dug out the...
by adminUS | Jul 6, 2019 | Garden
While we wait for things to get moving with the cottage, it seems we’ve become avid bird watchers. After setting up a feeding station and bird bath in front of our motion sensor camera we’ve been catching some fantastic shots of all our feathered visitors....
by adminUS | Jun 26, 2019 | Garden
We must be doing something right as a hungry little rabbit decided he liked our radishes. I have to say he was quiet good at only taking one or two a day but still, in a week there’d be nothing left… So with a few stakes and some garden wire we created a...
