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Leaf raking 🌲🌳🍃🍃

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This mornings no daddy decided that the leaves in the back garden needed raking and collecting up. Strangely enough, the boys were not so keen – however, this was to be a no choice option. It had dropped to a couple of degrees below zero overnight so the garden and leaves were nice and frosty so would perhaps be easier and certainly cleaner to pickup.

We now have 2 x 1m cubed bags full of leaves 🍃 at the end of the garden.

Olly basically whinged for almost two straight hours, Elly whinged for the first 30 and then realised no whinging was stopping it happening 🙂

Daddy has two large blisters on his hands – suck it up buttercup….

So, just got the ivy to pull from the wall on the side of the house and the new floodlights to install – maybe this afternoon or Friday….

Dining Room fire = ENABLED

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A gas safe engineer had been out today to assess our handy work regarding the ventilation to enable the gas fire in the dining room. We got the all clear and so the fire is now operational once again – winner 🙂

Secondly, the alarm guy has been out and taken details to figure out what we need to get the house alarm replaced with an appropriate item so hopefully we will be all set in January.

Simon also ordered a Hive system today and it will be installed on the 5th of January, so we are looking forward to getting properly in control of both the central heating and the hot water 👍

Cock up in the garage….

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Yesterday, Simon installed the first of the new garden lights that are supposed to switch on as somebody approaches them – or a series of three of them so that we can walk from the house to the office / garage or vice verse with illuminati n of the path when it is dark. 

The first one was installed yesterday morning and then left to test later in the day as darkness appeared. Sadly, the light didn’t work but then neither did the other lights on the gate posts that these were wired in series from….

So, before we went out for a Drew a Rusty Box dinner out, Simon went to the office and flipped the fuse back on since it had blown – nothing happened and no lights came on, so he flipped the switch again – only this time it tripped the entire garage electrics.

This caused a pretty big issue since the garage fuse box is in the garage part of the building, the garage door was down, is the only means of access but is slect if and has no other handle…. shite…..!!!!!!!

So, this morning it was down to the office with a torch and a hand saw – the only approach that could possibly work was to go into the loft space above the fuse box and saw a hole in the ceiling to give a small access hole into the garage. The next problem was being able to reach the damned fuse box and pull the main switch back on…. 15 minutes later and with a broom handle, we were back on.

The issue ended up being that the black cable in the pre-existing external cable was actually for earth and not neutral as Simon had believed – the grey one was the real Neutral….. Once that was figured out and swapped over, the fuse stopped blowing out each time it was switched on 🙂 yay

Then Simon fitted the remaining two lamps in the garden and tested the sensitivity etc once it got darker tonight so we should now finally be all set, albeit with a new hole in the ceiling of the garage (why the garage ceiling was plastered we are not entirely sure) although if you didn’t read it here, I suspect you would never know / notice…

We also managed to get out and take Hugo for a nice walk this afternoon before it got dark, with the boys and Paula and Cayton (who have come to stay over Christmas incidentally) – we all hope to sleep well tonight – the red wine with no doubt help – three nights on the bounce…. 😳 🍸🍺🍷

Productive yet ill weekend

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The weekend started early in Flockton with Elliot being sick just before the school run on Friday 🙁

Sadly he was not well during the morning although the afternoon was slightly better. Sadly at 3 am on Saturday morning, Elliot was sick in bed and required a full change of bedding – which we were not in a place to do. So, at 4am we were plumbing in the washing machine (after lifting the heavy thing UP the cellar stairs puttin daddy’s back into a small spasm 🙁 ) and setting it of on the first of many washes over the weekend.

So, daddy cancelled his ale trail trip with the boys and we finished emptying Turner Close.

Both the boys rooms are now completed and are in great space although there is still much to do in most other rooms in the house.

Today, Lee came over and helped Simon get networking into the office and into the lounge so we are now all ready for BT to come and fit the telephone and broadband next Friday. Once this is done, we can order Sky and will finally be in great shape 🙂

Hugo decided that after his walk with the kids and Caroline and Jessica that he would simply run away out into the darkness in the back garden. 20 minutes of panic was followed by scratching at the front door when he came back from his own accord – to a different door to that which he left….

The weekend was finished off with a cheeky glass of red wine in from of a roaring fire 👌 🔥

Kirkby Grange Farm

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So it finally happened after what feels like months of perhaps unnecessary torment and stress – we bought Kirkby Grange Farm in Flockton. A beatiful 4 bedroom end cottage that forms part of the original farmhouse that would be the ultimate if it were ever joined back up again.

The huge task of actually moving started on Saturday after receiving the keys on Friday evening.

The boys are hugely disappointed that there is no WiFi at the house yet 🙂

More info and pics will come soon….