One Year On... Or a Year in the Life of Being a Home Owner

Well that certainly went fast.  Who would believe that we have been in our house exactly one year?

In some ways it feels like we have been here forever and in others like we only just moved in.  Either way we are loving our home.  And it really does feel like a home.  It's got its flaws like a way too small kitchen and some of the decor is seriously stuck in the 1970s but we love it just the same.  We've even manged a few small changes like switching to gas bottles. Of course the problem of being gassed in our sleep or blowing up in a fiery ball of flames due to the cylinder leaking gas fumes were slightly more motivating factors.  

But change we did.

We also installed a heat pump,  Mostly because it was kind of sad to see Other Half wandering around the house in the middle of winter dressed up as if he was going out on an Arctic expedition.  So heat it was.

Less important changes were new front and back doors, only because the old ones rattled like crazy whenever the wind was up and as it's quite windy here the rattling kind of got old really fast.  And look at how pretty our front door is.

From this...

... To this

We've also installed some shelves both in the kitchen and the laundry which at least has made the world's smallest and ugliest kitchen look a little less small and ugly.

Baby steps you see.

As for the garden well it's a bit of a mess in places with weeds that are threatening to become all triffid like and pull themselves out of the dirt at any moment.  But in other places it's coming along really well and looking super pretty.

It's all being super productive providing us with cut flowers which are so pretty even if I am the world's worst flower arranger...

... and veg galore.  From lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, spring onions, and rhubarb.

So much so that I am currently freezing a bag or 2 every few days.  How cool is that?

There are also bees in the greenhouse.  Lots and lots of bees.  Pollinating like mad and hopefully going home to their hive to makes lots of yummy honey.  Planting marigolds everywhere really has helped to attract them.

Still there's a lot more that I want to do... plant more veg and more pretty flowers, laid down some compost to make the soil better and finally attack those triffids before they attack me.

Until them though just look at my pretty veg.