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’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... When we were building the house we’d often scoot up to site have a snout around and then head off for a walk on one of the trails close by. Since we’ve actually moved here we haven’t been out walking so decided yesterday that today was the day that... We’ve been up real early this morning. The clocks went back so it was an hour earlier than our body clocks were telling us. Mental note for those of you in the northern hemisphere, this means we’re now 11 hours ahead of the UK.Still getting up early means... Our butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths puppies are well and truly in the dog house. No joke.They disgraced themselves by chewing up the new veranda furniture that MT had slaved over making over the Christmas break. Although a bit of sanding, filling and... 