Working through floods and snow

It has been quite a week of weather, with NE Wales making the national news along with Manchester and central northern England as flooding followed two days of torrential rain (Tuesday and Wednesday) falling on already sodden fields. Nearby, a bridge over the River Clwyd between Trefnant and Tremeirchion, built in the mid 19th century, was swept away. Here on the hillside we were fine, benefiting from recently checked gullies and cleaned-out roof-valleys and gutters. 

Yesterday we visited the plot, using the Landrover to negotiate the still rain-affected minor roads. This was the view through the windscreen just outside Gellifor.


We were very surprised to discover that, in spite of a week of bad weather, Pat had been at work, and that most of our block and beam sub-floor is now in place. Elizabeth stands in her usual place near the ‘front door’, with views in turn from west, north, south-east and south-west (2).






In other news, our preparations to move crawl forward. The shipping container which I hired before Christmas at Gallagher’s is filling up nicely with my tools and materials from the stable workshop. It was a good idea to start by fitting it out with some shelving, and I’ve tried to maintain a corridor so that everything is reasonably accessible. The corridor may come under pressure next week as motoring and gardening stuff from the barn need to be moved. At the moment it looks quite spacious, I think you’ll agree.


Taking a big risk in order to get a property we liked, we took out a tenancy on a house in Caerwys ten days ago to accommodate us during the build period. We shouldn’t really have done so until exchanging on our sale, which still looks to be a week or two off, but pleasant rentals, in the right place and in this case with a double garage, rarely come on to the market. So we jumped, with our fingers crossed. As yet we have moved in just a few delicate things which would cause the removers problems.

So we now have an interest in far too many properties: a home and its associated holiday cottage which are (hold your breath) almost sold, a home-to-be which is still deeper in the ground than it is above, and a rental property which we have yet properly to colonise, not to mention the camper van which has not seen distant parts this past COVID year. Perhaps things will look a little clearer by the next post.


Comments

  1. Emma23 January 2021 at 20:36

    I haven't been on for a while, so wow at your progress. There's really going to be a house!

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  2. Ian Thorpe23 January 2021 at 22:28

    Yes, certainly hope so. Looking forward to walls and roof!

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