Spent last night on a LILO

At least we did twelve months ago.  Yes we’ve been here a year; this time last year (by day) we woke up early having spent the night on a blow up Lilo (double mind you! No expense spared) to set to work on our first day here.  Sandie started organising the cleaners, and hovered and prepared for the movers who were due soon.  The animals and coops/houses arrived the previous evening, so I started build small runs around hen coops, and a compound for the whole area where the birds were due to be housed.

(Pictured here in November last year).  The furniture arrived at about 8 o’clock and our dream gradually became a reality, but a slightly chaotic day was spent piling boxes into the conservatory and other less used places, so that by the end of the day, we had a habitable place. 

In the meantime, the rabbits were housed in the garage, and are now very well settled in, and additions have been included.

So two removal lorries – the biggest that Whites Removers had (dwarfing the cottage!), plus a second three quarter sized one juggled over space and unloaded everything.  The animals had arrived in two long wheel base Transits.  What a logistical achievement – says he with due modesty.

 The major frustration of course was no telephone line, and hence no broadband, and to get a mobile signal we had to walk up to the main road.  The blog started in November once we were connected, and the rest is in the archive – so read away and enjoy.