Nat on 2 feet!

Nat with his new baby walker which will teach him to balance. He ran in his other one but is pretty much stationary with this at the moment but will hopefully push on, get it, soon!



Despite his lack of movement he seems quite happy. On all fours is another matter. I could not get my film of him crawling to upload so he cannot rival cousin Matthew in the race for best actor role. He gets everywhere now so I have ordered stair gates and have to be a lot more watchful!!!! He also now sits at the bottom of the stairs and cries when I go upstairs which he never did before but at least we have progress, of a sort.

nn XX

Still 'getting there'...............patience is a virtue!!!!!!!!!! Plus our holiday....

We went to Corfu recently so here is a taste of what it was like;



Nat loved being in the pool which was nearly always 30 degrees! He amused the other guests no end.



This is the view all along the bay our hotel was in.



Nat in his floatie which was £13 very well spent!



This was a walk through a little greek village high up where you could see a fantasic sunset. These flowers are common but so beautiful.



We went up to the village on evening to watch the sunset. It was lovely and the usually cloud free sky had a few streaky clouds to enhance the effect.

Here are some more pictures of the 'getting there' project. Today I raked the lawn of building debry and then mowed and strimmed it. All in 29 degrees, woooo, was I sweating!!!







This the view standing on scaffold at the back looking towards the front down the right side of the house. It gives you an idea of the nice work done on the tiling. The weird looking pipe job was done today to accomodate the toilet's waste pipe.









This picture is from the front left of the scaffold looking down the same side of the house as the previous picture but from the front. The window on the left is above the new staircase.









This is the vew from the scaffold of my washing, hmmmmmmmmmm, and Nat with rat, of course!









This is view down from top of new staircase.









And finally, view from back right of garden. We are the only house around the green with a red roof but more on the road. It brightens up things rather than a grey slate, which was the other option, or a rather sickly brown which is kinda gross for a roof colour even if it matches the paint job.





Life goes on. I am working full time being a nuttynurse at the mo so daddy is having to do lots of babysitting and is getting a taste of what mummy does on her 'days off'!!!!! Work has been ridiculously busy with untold demands on staff when on shift. I still love my job and wouldn't swap nursing but sometimes I wonder how long the goodwill of nurses/NHS workers will last when they are pushed to the limit, do loads of unpaid overtime and don't have time to take allocated breaks!

Peace out

nn XXXXXXXX

Getting there.........

View from top of new staircase through door frame space.

This is from right front position looking towards the back of the room and out the dormer. Showeroom is through the door space on the left.
This pic shows side of the dormer and the maynard window at the top of the new staircase.
This pic gives a close up view of the lovely tiles. They are red with faint black stria which give them a very attractive look (do I sound like a salesperson!) I'm sold!
This pic looks along the front of the roof showing the velux window, new fascias (white) and new guttering. Had to get new fascias and soffets due to squirrel occupation and the subsequent damage! The guttering is at quite an angle but apparently so is the house!!!! That's what you get for building on clay soil Mr Whittell!

So, 11 weeks down the line and we're getting there! All that remains is finishing the roof, installing the sanitaryware plus plumbing and internal finishes, door frames etc.

Here's hoping for a quite summer..............well apart from getting my paint brush out!

nn XX