Mike and Judy came down from London for the weekend. Karen wanted to pick Judy's brain on gardening questions, and get both Mike and Judy (two architects) to check my work to date. Mike just wanted to see the programme and the budget, neither of which is really up to scratch yet. But we had lunch outdoors (14th of March) which is one of the major reasons we chose this house. This partially sunken area will be right outside of the kitchen when we have moved it (I will get on to the house eventually.) Speaking of the kitchen, we sold the AGA last weekend to a local couple who were delighted to find it. For my overseas readers, an AGA is a large, heavy cast iron cooking range. This one was coal fired but converted to oil, and these things go 24 hours a day and really drink the fuel, so it has no place in a low energy house. And after upping the insulation and airtightness it would make the place unbearably hot. Everyone is happy, though. (Karen got the AGA much cleaner that this before we showed to anyone.)
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