Demolishing The Garage

As we have now constructed the Sun room, under new planning regulations we need to 'give back' the square metres used for construction, and have made the decision to demolish the garage. This will also give us some off road parking, which is a necessity with the very busy road at the front of the cottage, and parking space being at a minimum.

We have given the work to a local building company, as the roof sheets contain 1% asbestos cement, these need to be disposed of in the correct manner and to a licensed waste station.

Initial work has commenced, laying foundations and building a block-work wall to divide up the current outhouse and garage space, and today some of the roof sheets have been removed.

Dining Table

After deciding that as we had family visiting for Sunday lunch, that the small pine kitchen table would only seat 4 people, we did a "sell/buy" event on Ebay!

We listed and sold as a Buy it Now, the pine table and 4 chairs, and bought an oak 8 seater dining table, that also came as a package with an oak sideboard.  Unfortunately having no room for the sideboard, this was listed and sold as a separate item, so we were eventually left with the oak dining table and 6 red leather chairs remaining, all in place for our family meal.

Flying ducks

We bought this unusual set of 4 flying ducks while on holiday many years ago from an antique shop in Totnes, Devon.  They have travelled around with us as we have moved house, living in a packing box for at least the last 8 years.

Some of the plaster had perished, and the ducks had acquired many more chips and knocks, but after some renovation work they are as good as new,  now in situ flying along the sun room wall.

Freezer

We have eventually got around to ordering a small under counter freezer to stand alongside the fridge in the base of cupboard.

Zanussi make, ordered from and delivered by John Lewis, with a 2 year guarantee.

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