It's official, we are now the (proud) owners of Oakwood barn. I would love to say proud but the last few weeks in particular have ben very hard with the developer being such a muppet, and we are ever more depressed by his inability to both finish the job off / tell us the truth. It has really taken the shine off things and his ever increasing ineptitude is making us wonder whether the whole house is going to fall down around our ears in a years time. If we think positive for a moment, the truly awful weather that we have had all month means at least we know the house doesn't leak, although it has shown us that the guttering has been put up incorrectly. It runs the wrong way so all the water collects at the end that doesn't have the downpipe - you really couldn't make this stuff up! This is just one of the 'small' things we will fox ourselves rather than having him anywhere near it - I can't bear to watch him do anything on the house for fear he will make it worse not better. We celebrated with our neighbours both te purchase of te hose and the imminent demise of Richmond Construction... only those who have lived through it can fully understand the frustration of having to deal with his constant lies...
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Despite all of the trials and tribulations I know we will love the house when the noise has died down, and this week was another example of why we moved. On Wednesday the weather cleared for a few brief hours (a miracle) and so we spontaneously agreed with Amanda, Alex and the boys to go to the beach for fish and chips. We left about 6 and almost immediately got stuck on the motorway but by some fluke Amanda drew up next to us so we had 25 mins chatting in our respective cars and feeling jealous that they had sweets in their car but we didn't...
The beach was very windy but deserted and beautiful and the kids ran around / took pictures / got muddy (Laurie and Izzy). All this from our doorstep on a school night - fab!
On Saturday I dropped the girls off at school and headed to my first in person yoga class in Taunton. I found a hot-pod yoga studio which while it's not quite what I'm used to, turned out to be a great class and one that I'll happily build into my schedule as one I can do and fits neatly into my diary. I've also found another studio which looks good (and a little closer to familiar yoga style) and I'm booked into my first class there on Wednesday evening. I'm quite enjoying this mini voyage of yoga discovery and it will do me good to try some new classes.
We've also started swimming on a Sunday morning at the school pool which is lovely. Abi is doing two sessions a week which are pretty full on so it's nice for her to have a slightly more laid back swim, and Izzy is enjoying rebuilding her confidence in the pool after not swimming for ages. The system works very well, and because its all quite regimented there have been very few people in the pool each time we've been which is even better.
I also managed to find somewhere to get my hair cut (finally, I think the last haircut I had was in November!) so that's another tick in the box for getting myself organised. Taunton isn't the centre of the universe (hardly!) but actually I'm enjoying finding my way around and reacquainting myself with what's on offer. I'm also loving the surrounding countryside, with hills, beaches and everything in between it's proving to be very satisfying indeed.
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