Neil Kennedy's sketch of Laykin

My friend Neil came up in the summer to see Laykin and was instrumental in advising us on many things. He sketched this picture for us- we love it, and have framed it and put it in the house. We have also used it on our stationary. Neil is so talented but we didn't know that drawing was one of his talents! He was the one who advised us on the exterior and came up with so many clever ideas for the inside- he has had lots of experience doing up houses over the years

Building walls and sorting out the outside

We decided to make our car parking on the west side of the house (prior to that we had thought that would be a nice place to sit and have it as a paved area for an extra bit of garden- this was until we realised that it was far too windy on that side to be enjoyable!)

We were busy all summer sorting out retaining walls and planning paving. We hid the oil tank behind walls too.