Here's one of the interlopers that take advantage of the condensation on the bathroom window. The baby snails (and sometimes slugs - ugh) sneak in through the vents and make themselves at home in the cool damp autumn evenings.
The big news for this last week is that we have - at last got our plans registered with the planning department. Now all we can do is wait, answer any questions sent our way and hope that the council will smile on our efforts to produce an acceptable design.
It's hard not to want to jump ahead of ourselves and start looking at all the secondary details that we've found out about whilst designing the house. We'd been planning an environmentally friendly home even before it was such headline news. We hope to have solar hot water, clean and energy efficient heating, a productive garden, natural pond and a healthy environment to live in. The jury is out on a wind turbine, but our location appears to be quite suitable. There are lots of things, big and little that will make this our home and we can't wait to make them real.
Just yet though we have to hold back and see if we will be allowed to put down the bricks and motar. Wish us luck.
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