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      Over 10 years ago this door was plucked from a skip in the scrap yard when we extended the Hut to create a spare room. The room was forever known as ‘Number 30’. This weekend, it returned to the scrap yard… Image of the Week #196

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      The first thing we did when we became owners of Christ Church was to build The Hut as a temporary dwelling for us while we construct The House and restore The Church. Coincidentally, almost to the day 13 years later, we have begun to take it down. However, we are still living in it! The parts we are removing…

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    Showing it as it is… 2016

      Showing it as it is… capturing the reality of Christ Church Living (with minimum cropping and editing of photographs!). Our annual snapshot post of the whole project, recording the ebb and flow of things we have filled the church with to enable us to live here and work on the restoration of the building.       Part of…

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    12 years!

    Today marks 12 {happy hard working} years of Christ Church Living! When we officially become the owners of Christ Church one of the first things we did was to build The Hut and here Owen is nailing down the floor in the living room. Now, with the same hammer (note a very similar t shirt!) and joined by Fred and…

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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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    Showing it as it is… 2014

    In January of last year, I posted about ‘showing it as it is’ and revealing the not quite so tidy bits of the church which don’t normally make it onto the blog. It featured two full length shots looking over the pews with all our possessions stacked in a seemingly chaotic jumble. I wanted to record this as a way…