Happy Anniversary to my better half

Happy anniversary to my wonderful husband. Today we've been married 6 years and haven't we done some great things in the last six years, the kids are being the main one.

Anyway with all that's been going on we both forgot, but good old google photos showed me a memory and I managed to catch James in forgetting. I did confess just after that I had too!

This weekend we've burnt some wood from the demolition, only stuff with paint on that I wouldn't put in the wood burner. The builders had built the fire and we halved the wood in it putting some away for winter. We then took half again off to one side to put on gradually and it was still way too fierce, just about scared me to death. If they'd have burnt the original pile like they planned to tomorrow I think our woodshed and cabin would have gone up. I'll have to have a word.

On Saturday whilst James was doing some disconnecting the kids wanted to play playmobil. It was a  set we'd had from a friend's daughter and most of it had never been put together. By the time I got it all set up as a zoo the kids had long since lost interest. I took a photo though, I was proud of my work.

The boiler was disconnected and the pipes moved. It all went well and on Saturday night we had a nice hot shower. Come Sunday morning the bloody boiler wouldn't work. What's wrong you may ask? Who knows, it's done this before but as the only thing it will be heating water for is the kitchen tap we have decided not to bother messing with it until the build is done and it's in the final location. We'll boil a kettle to wash up. Still it's a pain in the ass, but I doubt it'll be the last before we're done.

Today we got some bits from screwfix and got into the garden to plant out some veg. I had to pull a whole load of leeks so I could fit stuff into the bed. The leeks went into a leek and potato soup that we had for tea and I put the rest in jars to freeze to eat over the next few weeks. You may notice that I have some re-usable tatler lids that I bought from amazon.com and had shipped here. It was exciting to use them for the first time, even if only to seal the jars.

Excuse the mess!

I got up the ladder on Saturday to take some final pictures of our bedroom, it's like an earthquake hit.

Some of you guys were envious of our water storage tanks and I hear you. Unfortunately I'm not sure the building control inspector will be happy, but hopefully the tank at the back can stay, if we line it properly it could be immense.