The conservatory

When we moved in the conservatory looked like this: 

Which was ok until we had the wettest winter ever and had damp come through. We eventaully decided to get it rendered:

The Garden

IDdWe have big plans for the garden that will take years to achieve, but we're finally making a start (April 2014)

Before the work:

Starting to take down the old chicken coop aka the first wood store area:

This weekend (May 8th-10th 2015) mum and dad came down to help.

Here's what Dave and dad did:

Start:

This is the hole made by the digging:

They also did the drive (widened it for 2 cars)

And there's this too (levelling out the lawn and filling boarders. We've also seeded it!) 

And there's a mound of soil ready to move to the gravel area when we do that

Rachel helped with seeding

And meg hid:

And mum and I baked for Rachel:

Update - September 2015.

We've made lots of progress in the garden, getting our new shed, removing the gravel patch...amongst other things