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More muck and raking

22 May 2008 2 Comments

We’re living on a building site again. In fact, as I write this blog there is an enormous truck delivering metal (that’s road gravel) moving past my window. After months of waiting the ground works people have returned to finish of the drive and spread the top soil back on the land around the house. [...]

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Gardening for style

11 May 2008 6 Comments

Great excitement this weekend – we’ve planted our hedge that will in time grow to be a stylish surround for our herb and salad bed. Our hedge arrived by courier in two banana boxes – 120 Buxus sempervirens (English Box). The aim is to make an ornamental design which will not only look good but [...]

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The land and house that never was

10 May 2008 Leave a Comment

Loyal blogger readers will remember that our house building dreams haven’t entirely run a smooth course. For new readers, here’s the crux of our story. Anyway, we were out yesterday with the bassets walking the Rimutaka Incline Trail which is a recreational path that follows the line of the old Rimutaka Train Line. Lo and [...]

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Drought to floods

27 April 2008 Leave a Comment

New Zealand has weather warnings today that we’re about to be deluged with rain with a threat of tornadoes. Just as well we managed to get the rain collection from the barn roof connected to the main water tank today. This means we’ll now be able to maximise the rain amount of we collect. We [...]

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Autumnal colour at last!

24 April 2008 1 Comment

It was another mini milestone this week with the arrival of some autumnal colour at last. This was in the shape of our first delivery of trees – 42 in all – about 50% of the first tranch of planting to be done. It was quite a sight to see the HGV delivery them without [...]

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Just for Ruth: a chicken coup to go with the book

24 April 2008 Leave a Comment

When I was a kid I always used to be slightly embarressed that my father was capable of over engineering most things. For example, we couldn’t just have a rubbish bin – it had to be a grit bin which was one of the products that we manufactured in the family firm. There was a [...]

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Residential definition

22 April 2008 Leave a Comment

It’s been months since I started my search for a fencer and after a couple of false starts with two people I finally found a fencing contractor that would come to take our hard earned cash. Hugh and his mate finally turned up a week late but in a few short hours they’ve reinstated the [...]

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Oooh, those legs are going to hurt

12 April 2008 1 Comment

With two beautiful sunny days we set to again this weekend to see if we could reveal more of our land. The main challenge was to clear the area where the fencers are coming to build the chicken run but MT couldn’t help himself to test out his mower again. The Bassets were not best [...]

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A man and his mower

8 April 2008 1 Comment

Last weekend MT set to with his new lawnmower bought in the sale. It’s not quite the ride on mower he dreams about but with a lawn that’s refusing to grow and thistles growing on most of the land we figured it was too soon to be investing the amount of $s it would be [...]

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Slow progress for Mike and Andrea

7 April 2008 1 Comment

It’s hard to see from the outside the progress inside on Mike and Andrea’s place. There aren’t many white vans visiting that often so you have to wonder how much progress is being made. From the outside some stone cladding has gone on but the main render seems conspicuous by it’s absence. Having spied through [...]

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