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The Coombe Cottage Blog: We've only gone and bought it
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Friday, 11 December 2009. We've only gone and bought it. So the first post of this infinitely dull blog about the restoration of our infinitely broke. err. I mean. lovely new home. Bought at auction on December the 3rd 2009 we give you. Coombe Cottage. Photo by Andrew Snaden). Our plan is to fully repair, renovate and make it our family home so I thought I'd try and document the carnage along the way and share it with anyone who has the spare time to read this.
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: Ehhhh Rat Fans!
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Thursday, 7 April 2011. This opening up phase should be finished tomorrow and the structural report carried out early next week. Hopefully we can soon move on to the more interesting building and demolition stage where I'm sure there will be lots more dead rat fun. Our bedroom before. The arched beam arrangement in the centre of the room is the very, very rare cruck truss which, due to Death Watch beetle, has the same structural integrity as an Aero bar:. 7 April 2011 at 11:35.
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: March 2011
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. A few from the year off. Let me take you back through the mists of time, back to a time when temperatures averaged some 10C higher than today, the country was covered in verdant vegetation and man had no need for Justin Beiber. Let me take you back to. May 2010! Anyway, here they are in all their slightly self indulgent glory. Come on summer, hurry up! This is as high as I'm going without a risk assessment". Mungo love gloves, Mungo love gardening".
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: Waiting again
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Tuesday, 19 April 2011. Anyway, here's a few pics from last Sunday of not very much. Can you have an infestation of one? Indiana Rowley and Hels Bells check for snakes in the kitchen. Me, the wife and Nige (the day before he set off to solve the middle east peace crisis by riding his motorbike through the middle of it. 19 April 2011 at 07:52. They dont looked dressed to work! Get them doing something next time please, dont want to waste a single of your waiting minutes! She's doi...
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: A few from the year off
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. A few from the year off. Let me take you back through the mists of time, back to a time when temperatures averaged some 10C higher than today, the country was covered in verdant vegetation and man had no need for Justin Beiber. Let me take you back to. May 2010! Anyway, here they are in all their slightly self indulgent glory. Come on summer, hurry up! This is as high as I'm going without a risk assessment". Mungo love gloves, Mungo love gardening".
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: All systems go go go!!
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. All systems go go go! Firstly an apology for not posting anything on here for over a year. The long and boring reason for this is that it's taken nearly the whole year to get planning permission and we didn't want to prejudice the councils decision by spouting a load of (probably libelous) nonsense on here. The short (also boring) reason is that I'm very very lazy when it comes to this sort of thing. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A hopefully intere...
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: April 2011
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Tuesday, 19 April 2011. Anyway, here's a few pics from last Sunday of not very much. Can you have an infestation of one? Indiana Rowley and Hels Bells check for snakes in the kitchen. Me, the wife and Nige (the day before he set off to solve the middle east peace crisis by riding his motorbike through the middle of it. Thursday, 7 April 2011. The remains of the ceiling (r) and the huge pile of dead rats with a bit of straw covering them (l):. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). NOTE: Thi...
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: Completion
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Tuesday, 22 December 2009. So we've had a rather unexpected Christmas present in the form of a tumble down house, yep we've completed on Coombe Cottage and she is officially ours! After I'd picked up the KEY (I think it deserves to be written in capitals) I popped over to the cottage, checked for leaky pipes (don't think there were any - shoes were dry) and took a couple of pics of the front in the minuscule amount of snow that the West Country has ground to a halt over. NOTE: Th...
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The Coombe Cottage Blog: Survey
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The Coombe Cottage Blog. Friday, 11 December 2009. While Nick did surveyory things around the house I took the opportunity to start my photo documentation project and got some quick snapshots. The house was shrouded in mist so there was very little contrast outside, not ideal photo conditions but hey ho. The mother-in law's bedroom (Doris in the bath, Jennie on the floor by the copper wash? The beer cellar/guest suite/air raid shelter. Ye Olde Public Bar? Just needs a bit of plastering and it'll be foine!