The months between April and August saw many trips to The Charlton House, but little progress in renovations

The quicker than expected sale of the family home in Somerville meant our time was dedicated to packing up in preparation for an early August settlement. As we were downsizing to “temporary” housing prior to our eventual move to Charlton, all the trips were to bring up furniture, tools and other less used possessions for storage and/or use in The Charlton House.

Now that we are settling in our new, albeit temporary, digs in Sandhurst we expect to start making rapid progress with the renovations, starting with a double garage in which to store those things which are cluttering the house and preventing us from painting etc.

The first post settlement trip was the start of the now regular August to October cycle of mowing the rapidly growing “grass”, courtesy of cooler temperatures and winter rain. The first of the mowing days wasn’t without drama however, as one of the blades on the ride-on snapped resulting in a trip to Donald to purchase new blades. Thanks to Andy Gillihan at Donald Motorcycles for your great service!.

With mowing complete, Sunday’s task was to move some firewood which was stacked against the fence near where the garage is to be built to another location in the yard.

Stay tuned for more regular updates as the renovations accelerate.

Firewood and bricks neatly stacked in the yard

The grass was a little longer that I thought.