Grey Elephants.... demolition day eight

If your getting bored with all the demolition photo's, fear not, there aren't any new photo's today....

The whole thing seems to be a bit of a white elephant as the expected safety STUFF for Soggibottom cottage never arrived. No work today, they all had a cup of tea and went home. Not the demolition crews fault. Before anyone mentions it, I never had any knitted white elephants to show you... oh, well, it's Thursday tomorrow  and looks like it's going to be quiet next door for a few days. Real mess outside, not a great view to look upon.
Although the view at the moment isn't a worry, the worry is that although the demolition crew has again boarded up windows and doors of the cottage next door, also put all their safety cages around the area, there is a child's playground right behind the caged area. Maybe we worry too much....... 

Who ever had the job of getting all the right approvals and paper work in order.. oh, naughty, naughty....  Same people who are building our village by pass road... not very efficient.

At least Spring is around it's time to give everything outside in our courtyard garden a good shake to make sure everything is waking up...

I can see another trip to the garden center on the agenda.

One of Freya's favourite places to visit.  It's one of the few places that allow dogs and she loves all the attention she has there.

There are hours and hours to be spent outside in our garden tomorrow, but promise to keep you all updated on the house moving monster.........

Felt art, Rosie the retriever and a new mode of transport. Demolition. Week two day seven.

How to park a digger in a dining room...

A good idea to take the walls down first.

At least it was a brighter day to work outside.

Tomorrow our protection from falling debris arrives, at least that is the plan.

With all that's going on next door it hasn't stopped us from having visitors. Meet Rosie the Retriever. One of Freya's friends who loves having her photo taken. She has that beautiful Retriever smile.

This is a felt art gift from Karina.
My daughter isn't just a better artist than me, (if you ever see me with an artist paintbrush it's probably to put shadow on a teddy bears face) Karina is better at felting too.
All this needs is a frame.

See you all tomorrow, for another fun packed lesson on how to demolish a house.

If we can get him off of the phone...... :-) xxx

Week two - day 6 of Demolition - Spring and frogs.

Here are the demolition guys who have been given the unenviable job of taking down the yellow cottage next door. 

You notice they only had eye's for Freya Rose Blossom until I asked them to look up. She is such an attention seeker.

It's been another cold day, far too cold to have to work outside... even inside the cab of a small digger.

Things are disappearing. There used to be a porch there yesterday.

A better close up of the front door.

After finding an English Civil war cannon ball and small dagger hilt in our own garden a few years ago, it makes us wonder what might be found next door.

We also have some musket shot that was found near the church in the village a few years ago.

If anyone is in any doubt about Spring being on it's way, although the skies are grey here, there is still plenty of colour around. Our local garden center is one of Freya's favorite places as she is allowed in.

Snowdrops in the hedgerows that are well away from the route of the new road.

Buds on tree's (we won't be telling the road builders where these tree's are either).They are well away from the route of the new road.

We even have frogs.
See you all tomorrow. Freya can be found over at Cat Flap Cavalier as usual.

Day five of Demolition D day. No dragons here.

No dragons around here today. She went to the beach.

Leaving parts of the village looking more and more devastated with all the work that is going on for the new village by pass road. It would be a good thought looking at this photo that this is where the yellow cottage once stood but it's not. It's where tree's and hedgerows once grew. No bird song now.

The yellow cottage is still standing. Looking even worse than it has done before. After week one it's still there...

It's just as well we went out, it's a sad sight to see. We set off for better views.
It was a cold, wet and windy afternoon, but on days like this, at least we had the whole beach to ourselves.We went a few miles South to Bigbury Bay. At the height of Summer I wonder if the tourist ever think what it is like in the Winter...
It's like this... best time to go, even if it was cold.

Besides there were places that we could escape the wind.

 Loads of digging and rock climbing.

We are going to have a very quiet and restful weekend.
 Ready for week two in the demolition of the cottage next door.

It seems very eerie to see lamp posts and telephone poles standing all on their own on our return journey.
Have a good weekend and we will see you all on Monday x x x

Happy St David's day..................

Demolition (D) day four

Demolition day four... Is it day four ?

At the moment this small trailer is being used to take things away, good thinking to protect our old bridge, All the debris has to carted away somehow. 
The kitchen is out of the yellow cottage,  loaded and ready to go.

Along with a couple of chairs at the back.

Various blocks from a wall.

Today the demolition crew have removed anything removable from inside the yellow cottage next door.
It's been flooded as many times as we have over the last year, it can't be a pleasant job.
Next week the scaffolding goes up around the cottage next door to protect Soggibottom.

We have read all our safety instructions and thanks guys, we were only joking about the hard hats, but it's a very tempting offer to have our names on them...  Orange ones too.
That's about it for today.

Snow drops in our garden.

See you all tomorrow.

Demolition (D) day three

Day three, it seems to be going slowly, but the cottage next door is starting to be demolished. I have to thank the demolition crew for not waking me too early this morning.

The other side of the cottage. The wall between the children's play park has now gone, beside the wall there were Hazel trees sparrows used to nest in. Not sure where they are going to go this year. The thought is when every thing calms down, maybe we can put up more and more bird houses for them all.

With all the extra activity around, it all seems terribly interesting. It also seems so sad to see this 200 year old cottage slowly disappearing.

We have a saying at Soggibottom cottage at the moment, "beware of men with yellow coats".
They are everywhere, no escaping the sound of machinery along the main road.

We did escape today, Freya can be found over at the CAT FLAP CAVALIER feeding the swans at Exeter Quay.

The tomato seeds I planted a few days ago have already started to sprout. Maybe the noise has woken them early.

I thought it wise to keep everyone updated about them especially Caroline. I'm not going to be too big headed, last year all my new tomato seedlings died off and I had to reseed them.
 

Something that has been constructive today,   Marley Wynn's new slippers.
See you all tomorrow......