Picture: The way through the woods for the water main.


The caravan arrived on site last Friday and it is huge - makes the site look quite small! I was at work on Friday morning and I called R at 11am to see how things were going, and he was half way up a tree lopping some branches off so the caravan on its lorry could get onto the site. He had an exciting day - the caravan is on site but needs quite a lot doing to get it up and running. I had naively thought that we would wheel it on, connect a couple of pipes and that would be that. Not so unfortunately - a lot of lugging about to get it East, a lot of thinking about how best to jack it up so it's level and stable, and then a carpet cleaner to freshen it up - it's not really dirty, just needs sprucing up a bit. I can't remember if I said this but it has got double glazing, electric panel heaters and a gas fire which may go some way to keeping us from freezing.

We now have a phone line - hooray - the first utility installed. A stand pipe for water and a board for electric meters. Plus the place is definitely beginning to look more like a building site and less like a garden.