Picnics and Plans

After a chilled weekend of puppy parties and picnics in the sun, our first draft of architects plans have arrived!

We actually really enjoyed a more chilled weekend this bank holiday and spent time actually enjoying our garden rather than working on it which was so refreshing. Its a fine line when you have a high maintenance and mature garden between spending every minute in it weeding, pruning, digging and chopping and actually sitting back, appreciating and enjoying it. Time to smell the roses and all that...!

So we just popped to our local M&S food hall and bought a load of really yummy picnic bits and spent some time just chilling in the sun with the dog!

The scotch eggs from the deli counter were incredible!! We also had red onion chutney topped pork pies...I as really enjoying mine until the spaniel decided to claim it!

Anyway more excitingly....this weekend marked the arrival of the first draft of architects plans! I cannot express how exciting this is for us. We've watched house programmes together for the last 10 years, and whilst we've always aspired to build our own home, this is the next best thing for us. There's no major work, but some walls to knock down and and some to add in...!

If you want to know a bit more about our plans for the house then why not check out our re-launched YouTube channel - we've done a little house tour so you can really get a feel for the place before we get started.

Once we've made sense of the plans I'll be sure to keep you posted on the planning process and how it goes for us - videos and blog posts to come :-)

Click here for Our House Tour Video!

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