🏡 As promised in an earlier Blog have been working on all the media sites to advertise our Ebay Shop, we enjoy sourcing and supplying a broad range of Retro, Antique & Vintage items of good quality, sometimes there are items that show age & wear that are too good or important to throw away but there is always a good home for these treasured items. So please have a browse of our Shop and hopefully there will be something of interest to tempt you…. http://www.ebay.co.uk/str/honeycottagevintage
Our section we used to have in Colyton, all now being added to our Ebay ShopLove this Art Deco Bell China Tea Set currently available for saleLovely Mr Quaker flour shaker/sifter currently for SaleLovely Teapot by Tony Wood, Staffordshire, love this item.Very nice Ouzo Glasses, unusual set, SOLDA lovely boat shaped Cruet Set for Sale soon.
Thank you for reading today & take care everyone during these difficult times.
🌞 Passed May Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK, nothing different happening, but allowed to travel distance just for the day, no stopovers & keeping 2 metres distance at all times, better than total lockdown I reckon but really hard trying to be careful around people, hoping they avoid me too !! We visited local Lyme Regis Beach for the first time in weeks, loved the freedom & not too busy as we go dog walking early. Been back for a second walk this Holiday weekend& was bit busier on the beach but not too bad, everyone wanted some of the wonderful sunshine we are having at the moment. Shops will be allowed to open middle of June with precautions in place, certainly going to be different going shopping everywhere for a long, long time. Maybe we’ll get so used to it all it will stay like it !!
It’s now 22nd June……been out & about being careful everywhere, quite quiet really. It seems busy with cars but when reaching destination its quite quiet with people. Shops have been allowed to open with social distancing last week, queues forming outside, not sure what they are like inside for shopping as do not fancy that at all at the moment. Did try a car boot last Saturday….nice lot of stalls but not the usual crowds so easy walking around and keeping distance. Next week its the turn of the restaurants & pubs to open…..lets wait and see how that all goes ! Update announced today (23/06) that 4th July all holiday sites, camp sites, tourism sites can re-open so just picture that for a moment…….one word comes to mind & frightens me……traffic (or two words ) …..traffic & caravans !!!
Jobs that are finishing ! Finished the railway sleeper steps in front of the Summer House, looking so good. Moved them from an area which was divided into two sections, one higher level with the Summer House on it originally but now dropped it lower to all the same level & re-used the sleepers for the steps….so no cost involved ! Added wood frame flower beds around the base to finish off the area so looking good.
Wall remaining is part of the Outside Toilet !
The area the house moved from is being cleared & section lowered but to do this we’ve had to remove lots & lots of rubble we had buried to raise this section and put the house on it, so yes you can imagine what size pile we are left with….so a skip has had to be ordered….so quess what we’re doing in next couple of days ! It’s the only way to do it !
The pile just got bigger & bigger !!SORTED !!
The far corner of the garden which was cleared recently of bags & bags of garden/wood rubbish to get rid ofwill be filled with a shed next week….waited so long to sort a shed, we have no garage to put garden tools in etc so they’ve been hanging around in the Summer House causing chaos everytime you went in to get something so what a great sort out it’s going to be !!
Pile of rubbish from corner where shed will be, now all gone to the tip !!
Something we’ve needed to sort for ages is to have good hosepipes around the garden, we have to have them for the thatch roof if needed, rule of the Insurance Co. so bought one for the front of the house & to make it easier bought one for the garden plants & cleaning the chicken coop in back garden so just bought same make hosepipe so all adaptors fit, makes life so much easier ! Our previous hosepipe was a cheaper one but for some strange reason it did not like the water pressure from the garden tap, even turning it on very slightly, it would pop the spray gadget off every time, been wet on a few occasions !! So anyway all sorted now, never want to have to use it for the thatch but have to be prepared !
🌻Next job was to put a shed next to the Garden Office for extra storage.
Another job was to hunt for a sold EBay Shop item not listed on the stock sheet, so spent time looking through ALL the stock boxes to find the item ! It was the right opportunity to do a ‘Stock Take’ making sure everything was correctly listed & on Ebay. A job worth while sorting, getting there with it !
🐣🐥🐣Sorting chickens next…..it has been very muddy in the run lately so decided had to sort especially going into the Winter months & cement was the only answer ! Machine came out first……….
Ideal time to bury kitchen ceramic tiles no longer needed.
Much much better to clean now, just hose it all down & sorted !Sorted a sandpit for the chickens, I’ll wait until the weather improves to use it. They have the dirt area in their coop run for their dust baths at the moment.
December was a time of COVID Lockdown so unfortunately no family able to travel here….so upsetting 😞 Had enough now….please go away COVID !!!
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