Courage

[August 2021]

Any work on a property is likely to be fairly disruptive to daily life. One question was always going to be ‘should we continue with the build?’. Faced with the reality of a life limiting disease, time itself becomes precious. You quickly get over anything that wastes that time and focus on what’s truly important. A touch of normality was called for, something familiar to provide stability amongst the chaos that is an over stretched NHS (If you have the strength and wit to “manage” your own case, do so, no one else will).

Our normality has involved clouds of dust, mountains of rubble, the grinding sound of power tools and the odd swear word (‘odd’? Enough to turn the air blue). And nothing has changed there.

The ducks have a new best friend – Tom – he built them a pond, or so they believe (‘ornamental’ was banded about before they took ownership / invaded).

The ‘great wall’ has been pointed , along with the end wall of the old building

A summer visitor nipped into the new build to check on progress and to find out what we’d done to their previous nest site!

And with the hard landscaping a work in progress, ‘no mow’ was the way to go

Then again