Looked at putting one of those on our land, there’s a few around here, nice looking houses,and quick to build, but apparently I would need to fill more brown envelopes than I can afford to get planning permission.

No,it’s fairly new, 81, built by a local bigwig to keep his daughter close after she got married, didn’t work she bugged off to Saudi with her husband after a couple of years.

There on mine absolute pig to take off.

Aye ours is detached, 2 massive downstairs rooms and a pokey kitchen, 4 bedrooms,1 large 3 medium and a bathroom big enough to be another bedroom, one of the downstairs has a huge wood burner for cooking and hot water so I suppose the must have used it as a kitchen and dining room but the...

This delivery was handballing with a wheelbarrow, it’s a kitchen extension with a wet room, we live with two people who are learning disabled and the shower in the bath arrangement is getting a bit much for them….us as well, to be honest so we are ‘future proofing’ things. It’s a big house, why...

Just foundations, if it had been any serious hard work I would have been out walking the dogs-)

20 minutes of hard sweaty Graft and it’s doon, walls starting the morn.

Bugger, the concretes arrived, not supposed to be here until three and it’s hoyin it down.

Whey did the horses earlier, lovely mornin but has turned to rain so I can’t get on with me chores, photo of our little part of paradise. Full of wildlife, including cleggs…..have I mentioned cleggs?

And no guaranteed return ticket,

Magpies, craws!,,? try an infestation of collar doves, sex mad the lot of them and cooing and courting from first light. Whey up, beg pardon, morning all, Misty but sunny, gannin to do the clegg run and feed the ponies..then prepare for the builders coming back thi morn,

You thought the Freelander was a money pit and you bought a Range Rover? Have you won the lottery? Welcome aboard.

Welcome to the nut house, and I thought my P38 has problems-)

Especially sketty hoops they inveigle themselves into other parts other foods can’t reach, bit like a certain lager-)

It’s always a worry, with any make or marque of the LR range…rust and water ingress.. and the other multidimensional problems yet, we ..’happy band’ continue to buy them….it’s a question I often ask mesel why? When we could buy much cheaper brands with better anti corrosion levels, better...

Cor,those L322s is deid posh-)

Do they have similar For the p38 or/is it broadly the same? Ta.

Bonnie dog, unusual colour for a border collie.

How did it get in, is the ?

Bugger, is that the time!?