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July in pictures
:: the diminishing woodpile as the last bit of stud wall goes up : stocking up the jam cupboard : July’s doorstep posies :: :: digging up the garlic crop : our annual day out picking bilberries : harvesting blackcurrants at the allotment :: :: preparing the glass blocks : grouting : the log pile grows ::
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kitchen build – part 2
The kitchen build has slowly progressed over the past few months. Since Part 1 of our kitchen build series (!) more cupboards have been built, running next to the main door. These have been backed by a prayer book shelf which gives them a lovely finishing touch. We bought drawers which have then been faced with part of a…
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One finished wall
A small part of the partition wall between House and Nave is finished… and has lights too! It has been a complicated wall to build (and plaster!) as it fills the large archway. Looking through the windows you can see into the Master Bedroom (formerly the Gallery), but as the room is at least double height. In keeping…
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May in pictures
:: a busy month for visitors to the church : we’d hoped our missing cat had returned, only to discover we’d mistaken his identity – oops! : designing our new website :: :: weeding the allotment : Karl securing a British land speed record : vegetable seed sowing :: :: fixing leaky downpipes : the outside of the wall in…
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April in pictures
A monthly picture diary. :: the easter bunny and chicks arrive in the garden : sowing seeds in the allotment : clearing our new log storage area :: :: father teaching son shelf building skills : trialing some pressed Christ Church flowers for new card designs : Fred masking up the kitchen cupboards ready for painting :: :: undercoating…
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The last House walls to be plastered
Progress on the House took a big leap forward recently by having the upstairs walls plastered – the master bedroom and the bathroom. This marks the end of all the plastering in the House and it does make the House look a little more ‘finished’. Plasterers Paul Nicoll and Chad Davies spent a few days here doing a wonderful…
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March in pictures
A monthly picture diary. :: spending time in the garden : plasterers working on the House : outside time :: :: cleaning the oak in the kitchen : signs of spring : cutting back saplings :: :: finishing the entrance porch : the first butterfly spotted : cleaning a clerestory window ::
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Showing it as it is… 2015
For the past two years at around this time of year, we have shared photographs showing the not quite so tidy bits of Christ Church Living in an attempt to highlight (as much to ourselves as to anyone else) any tiny steps of progress that we may have made over the year. We have noticed that the ebb and flow…
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January in pictures
A monthly picture diary… :: Karl’s experiments with the alchemy of wood finishes : the drawer handles go on in the kitchen : deciding on a paint colour for the inside of the kitchen cupboards : lime plaster repairs in the entrance porch : it’s cold : homemade sticky orange delight for our breakfast : repairing the entrance porch :…
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kitchen build – part 1
Mid December and in mid manic festive preparation time, we clear the ‘kitchen’ area to make way for carpenter Paul and Karl to commence the kitchen build. During recent weeks the ceiling has been painted and the walls lime washed; the antique Holophane lights hung and the air extraction ducting installed. The Christmas tree was a little in the way,…
