No we haven't suddenly built our house in the last couple of weeks. In fact I think we've hit the doldrums of the house build waiting for the planning officer to actually be bothered to set up a meeting sometime in the next decade. I may be sounding cynical, ok I am just sounding cynical there is no doubt about it. We're in limbo not knowing if our carefully and painstakingly detailed plans are going to be dismissed by this person so we've come up with a strategy. Get everyone you know in the local area to write that they like our general building concept. It makes us feel that we are doing something useful or correctly speaking Flora has put in at least 95% of the energy doing this but it may prove useful in the planning stage. So the whole few weeks have in my view been a little like watching paint dry.
I should be concentrating on monitoring the plumbing markets for possible discounted baths but I just can't get fired up when I don't know when we might just be able to start in 2011 or could it be 2012!
Oouch... If this was an episode of 'Grand Designs', Kevin McCloud would have just done a moody close up to camera saying:
ReplyDelete"There's no doubting the sincerity of Matt & Flora's vision for their new home.. BUT, to aim to build, unpack & move in all before the children are at university... well that's brave.!"
Keep plugging away, nothing worth doing is ever easy..