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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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A couple of years ago we featured a photograph of the above inscription as an Image of the Week, which Karl discovered as he was working near one of the clerestorey windows. Recently we have been working near the same window, and have discovered another inscription! It is on the reverse side of the glass, suggesting that they as…
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Restoration of the entrance porch
For the past couple of months we have been restoring the entrance porch on the south side of the nave. If you follow our Facebook or Instagram page you will have seen this in progress and now we are very pleased to show it to you – all finished! Historically the entrance porch has been very prone to damp…
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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,…
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switches…
We have got to the exciting part of house building, where we can start adding little details… such as light switches. Or maybe we’ve been slogging away at this project for far too long that we get rather over excited at installing light switches! Karl spotted these switches on Ebay some years ago, and they’ve been sitting in a…
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Landing lights
A house update is long overdue, so I thought I’d show you how the landing has progressed. Over the summer the ceiling and walls have been painted, along with the railing along the edge of the landing (and boy did that take a long time!). The walls are painted in Farrow and Ball’s ‘Pointing’ and the railing in ‘Borrowed Light’.…
