House Update

Hi Everyone, thanks for your comments on my resolutions and all the doubt about my running abilities!! I haven't been able to start that one yet - too wet here in Wales (so wet and windy that the rain is horizontal!). However, I thought I would do an update on the house. As you can see by the picture, the roof is going on! I am very excited about this, as with all the crap weather i wasn't expecting that at all. Apparently the stair case is inside and ready to be fitted and the windows are going in early next week, and the scaffolding is coming down.

It looks like the garden is going to be a good size by UK standards, and that is what I am concentrating on designing at this moment. I have done a rough sketch (very very rough) of what I am planning, but I don't have the dimensions of the garden, so I might not be able to do what I want. I am planning a vegie patch down the side of the house, with a herb garden against the fence. I am going to have a compost heap (don't think they have worm farms over here!) and I just saw one in one of those house mags that looks like a beehive, so am going to see if I can get that. I want to have a garden shed, and a rose garden (with climbing roses, bush roses and maybe the odd standard rose). Then there is a path to go in - I was thinking white gravel type path with big rocks bordering it. I was also thinking of having a patio area, and also trying to get some blue stone chip into the garden scape somewhere. I don't think I will have much lawn.