Sorry it’s been a while but I was sort of busy, or kinda sick. And a few times I was busy, sick, and not dealing. I’m still busy trying to turn the farm into a habitable space, while juggling budgets and side hustles to pay for all those expensive materials required to build stuff. Who knew that building walls needed so many bits of wood? I only did after watching a couple of YouTube videos.

But even after 20 series of Grand Designs I still had the hubris to claim I would be in by Christmas. I would love to blame getting sick, or discovering unexpected problems with the house, but that’s only half the story.

I hate to leave you with a cliffhanger, but it’s important to take things slowly when returning to blogging. So I will need a little time to stretch and warm up before I go all Captain Ahab:

“He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.”