Orange is for two....green is for one.
Times they are a turbulent. In every way. Our building project has us swinging on both sides of the emotional scale; one minute jubilant with ideas and the next crushed with the reality of the mounting costs. The winter storms have been in full turbulent swing, helping the demolition on with sheets of metal and plastic roofing flying off at high speed and landing in adjacent fields. Our sheep are expectant, fully rotund and due to lamb at the end of the month. We are currently in a stage of re-design with our building project. The design doesn't fit the budget. Either that or we throw more money at it. The danger of 'value engineering' is that the quality can be compromised. It is a fine line between cuttings costs and down spec'ing. All the time being aware that we are beholden to an ecological timetable that gives us a short window of opportunity to get the farmhouse roof off, and back on again before May - whe...