Our New Life in the Country: It's going well.....

Monday, 27 February 2012

It's going well.....

It's really going so well at the new place at the moment, over the weekend Lovely Hubby managed to finish off the spare bedroom while I was in Manchester with my folks, and then on Sunday when I was back we did all the finishing touches to it, cleaned up, and then......

... I moved all the boxes from the living room into it and completely cluttered it up!! Oh well, it's only temporary and it is the Spare Room,. once we're in it will be a calm and uncluttered oasis for visitors.

I did have second thoughts about all the 'stuff' on the mantlepiece and we are left with this, much simpler and more pleasing on the eye. A couple of the bits and pieces that were on there are now gracing my EBay pages, time to start making money again for my £2012 in 2012 Challenge.

One of the first things to go on the wall is this sign, something I bought ages ago on a lovely day out with LH and fortuitously a perfect match to the green of the fireplace.

Next we are finishing off the paintwork in the Hall and then there is just the Living Room to do and then it's time for us to up sticks and actually move in.

Last Friday the tractor and all it's attachments was picked up by a huge low-loader and delivered to the new house, so back on the farm it's looking very sparse, I think I'll take the camera home with me and start snapping away at all the space there.

Oh well back to my mop, it's a cleaning up day today ready for painting the woodwork in the hall on Wednesday when I'm back here.

Sue xx

8 comments:

Unknown27 February 2012 at 14:26
I'm loving hearing about the progress you're making! shows how much can be done in a short time - love froogs xx
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Dc27 February 2012 at 15:07
Great minds think alike. You left exactly the things on your mantelpiece that I would have left. All looking good.
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Mrs Thrifty27 February 2012 at 17:57
Looking really good xx
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Angela27 February 2012 at 19:23
Great sign. My neighbour has a similar one which says "HOME- a place of hopes and dreams"

Unfortunately the first time I saw it - admittedly standing to the left, on the far side of the room - I thought the curly script said "of hopes and drains"

The mantelpiece looks good with those few items too

Lenten blessings x
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Jane and Chris27 February 2012 at 20:55
...the change from house to home.
Jane x
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Jo28 February 2012 at 08:22
I'm glad you are able to stay in the old place while you do up the new one. I'm sure progress would have been much slower had you been camping out in the chaos.

It is looking good!
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Anonymous28 February 2012 at 13:47
Your progress is inspiring me to get my own 'much needed' jobs completed!
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Jacqueline Meldrum28 February 2012 at 15:32
Such a lot of work, but you will get there in the end :)
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This was my Blog, just me writing about our day to day life learning all about and then living the smallholding life. First we started on a farm in Oxfordshire, then we moved to a smaller place in Berkshire (both in England) and then we found a place of our very own at the bottom of a hillside in North Wales. Along for the ride were all our various animals, and we ended up with just our dogs, Suky and Mavis, our cat Ginger .... who secretly thinks he's one of the canine gang, a sheep called Ethel who wandered in off the road and stayed... and a roving band of egg laying chickens that live cheek by jowl with the local wildlife.

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It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

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Sue xx

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