Spring has sprung (more lambs!) and at last we have the first level of flooring down. Layers of thick insulation, damp proofing and all...

So what a change over the last few weeks! We were issued our Bat Licence by Natural England, which finally meant we were allowed to...

Gone are the days of being excited about an Amazon Delivery ... taking delivery this week of tons of timber, our rainwater harvesting...

Why is January such a depressing month?! The weather has been gloomy, and we are all fed up with the country being in lockdown, so I...

A Happy New Year to all! We wish you all good things for 2021. For many 2020 was a terrible year of sadness and loss, disruption,...

... and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a (dor) mouse! It's Christmas Eve and we like others around the...

We realised very early on, even before seeing the barns, that the Planning Department required us to be very accommodating to the...

So, the ongoing saga of establishing if we have hazel dormice or not, is now on hold for the winter. If the little critters are indeed...

First views of a sunrise at the barns, courtesy of Steve, the earlybird. The noisy video below shows the concrete taken up over the last...

Digging up the concrete and demolishing all the unwanted structures was always going to be the fun bit, but at the same time seemed like...

Before moving my knowledge of Somerset had been gathered from roadsigns on the A303 while travelling to visit family and friends in Devon...

It's hard to really imagine everything you want the finished article to look like. What did we do before the days of Google Images and...

It's been quite a few months since this saga began, and we've been having to manage entering the site over the neighbours driveway. Not...

We decided quite quickly that this was what we wanted to do. Something was just right about it, despite the fact that it felt like a bit...