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Julian asked me what our criteria were for selecting the site. It’s worth mentioning because we looked at many and this one wasn’t obviously THE ONE when we first saw it. We’re sea kayakers, so we wanted to be near the water. We didn’t want to be beside a busy road. Lots of sites lookedContinue reading “6 March 2020”

It’s all happening despite the weather – seeing this very physical manifestation of what’s been in my mind for months and years is extraordinary, particularly when so recently it looked like this… We repeatedly tell ourselves ‘it’s really happening’, trite but true. My room and the corridor/store in London is a clutter of boxes, cratesContinue reading “5 March 2020”

Drains are just about in, snow, sleet and rain have not helped. Rock has been chiselled out to get drain a run under the slab and five stepped manholes are in, a level bench cut for each, to drop the foul water down to the septic tank at the base of the cliff. On soilContinue reading “4 March 2020”

Since leaving art school in 1979 I’ve wanted to build a house and over many years have visited many sites, real and virtual but either they weren’t right or I didn’t have the wherewithal. Circumstances change and during the summer of 2018 Tash and I were looking at a handful of sites on-line and askedContinue reading “Home page (which you might not otherwise be able to find/see…)”

A leap year and a half… Plot 5. Too much happening, here’s a recap, then on to the current story. As soon as we owned the plot (June 2019) we submitted our planning application. Before purchasing we’d made an encouraging pre-application as the design brief (part of a planning permission in principle relating to fiveContinue reading “29 February 2020”

Looking back from 27Feb2020: The lumpy site had a track leading down to a man-made plateau, more or less level, about where you’d want to put a house. Views of the sea loch to the east. The vendor’s surveyor made available to us the before and after surveys – appearing to suggest there was moreContinue reading “We got the surveys. Don’t trust the surveys…”

So, materials have been arriving: a couple of hundred tonnes of crusher run, MOT type 1 for finishing the track, finer material to level beneath the insulation, some steel beams, reinforcement mesh, Isoquick insulation, inspection chambers, pipes, fittings and conduit… but still the big digger toils away – dawn to dusk. Finished with it laterContinue reading “1 March”