15 months later....

Carl and Janet, the photographer and writer who are working together on the Real Homes article, have just left. It was great fun, they were both lovely, and talking through what we've done to the house prompted me to look back at some of my early blog entries. I had forgotten what a long haul it was getting to the point we are now - and that this used to be the famous local eyesore of a house with a garage as a sitting room, an outside loo, a condemned gas cooker and a dead dog under the floorboards. I take being able to switch the oven on, or do the laundry inside the house, or look out of my front sitting room windows so much for granted now that I had almost forgotten how we lived for the first two years of my daughter's life. Thankfully I don't think she'll remember any of it, although my son says he still has very clear memories of 'the gloomy house', as he called it. We'll have been in the house three years in July, and it feels so much like home that I can't believe we haven't been here longer.