Little log cabin

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Well, almost ready to fit the roof on the shower block. The Somme mudbath at least froze over for a while allowing us to remain fairly dry.. for a change.

Also doing the new Noahs Ark caravan park website at present, so with luck, that will be on line by the weekend. No rest for the wicked.

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At last the snow has gone, so we've started work again at Noahs Ark in Perth, laying out the deckings for the Hobbit and their office.

On the downside, the ground is doing a good impersonation of the Somme after a heavy barrage.

We are also turning a couple of old portacabins into a des-res shower block. Need to get finished soon and back into the workshop as my old bones are feeling the strain of the bitter cold.

Smile please!!!

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Well, well, well. Heck of a week.

Gordon the photographer from the Glasgow Herald, arrived at the workshop bright and early to do the photo-shoot. I thought it would be a 20 minute affair, 'til....3 hours later....and still posing. All for the ONE shot.

Still, I'm in good company as he has has also done Sir Sean Connery and last weeks Herald feature was on Sir Ranulph Feinnes.

What next...finding out I'm really Sir Steve?

All things coming into place for SECC, with transportation organised today, and a donation of some cast iron furniture for the stand. Also the wheelchair ramps have been donated.

Orf out of the shop for a spell next week doing some deckings around the Perth Hobbit houses.

At least the snow has thawed to waist-depth at their site...

SECC time again

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The Reception office at Noahs Ark

It's been a grim week weatherwise, but we did brave the conditions and managed to get a delivery out to Perthshire which included a bit of a hike through thigh deep snow.

We see that Noahs Ark have now kitted out their 'reception' microlodge in preparation for their grand opening of the site in the Spring.

We are also looking forward to a feature due to appear in the near future in the Glasgow Herald magazine.

The final preparations are now being carried out for the SECC show, who's guest of honour this year is to be Neil Oliver from the TV programme, Coast.

Merry Xmas

Ah well, 'Tis Xmas yet again.

A hectic past few days getting the roof shingles on the Microlodges in the workshop ready for delivery at the start of the year. Preps are now underway for the SECC show on the 4th of Feb (where does the time go?). It seems like no time at all since the last show.

Like everywhere else, we have been blanketed in white, and luckily due the construction in the summer of our double oil barrel wood burner, it has been nice and warm in the cutting room, which is more than can be said for the assembly area....Sorry Gary.

Lucy

Hurrah....update...Lucy eating again

Cat Burglar????

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Well a good end to the week, apart from Wednesday night.

Firstly, the good part. We have the weekend off as transport for builds 4 & 5 going to Noah's Ark in Perth can't come until Monday, so we are all taking the 2 days off for a treat.

Also, more camping sites are in the process of the planning stage for their own 'Hobbit houses'.

Now, the Wednesday night....

For months, Lucy the cat has been getting me up at all hours through the night, so bought a catflap months ago and I've been 'intending' since (repeatedly) to get it fitted. So at last, tools brought from the workshop, it was installed, and so much easier than the last one I tried.

So far, so good.

Fitting the magnetic collar to Lucy....no problem. Still good.

Then, at 3 in the morning, I hear a crescendo in the kitchen. Something not so good is happening in there. I leap out of bed, barefoot, and straight onto a floor littered with cat biscuits.

Now, I could likely do the hot coal-walking stuff if I was mentally prepared for it beforehand, but the sharp pain caused by scattered Whiskas bikkies contacting soft feet was excruciating.

To make matters worse, Lucy was doing the 'wall of death' run around the kitchen, with her stainless steel food bowl firmly attached to the side of her head, courtesy of the magnetic collar to operate the bloody catflap.

The update is that all cat bowls have been replaced with plastic ones...oh, and she still hasn't eaten since the incident.