Janet's Blog

Great news – after an absence of at least a week and much arguing and accusations as to "who had it last" I've finally found my camera so I can take a few more photos for the gallery. Today was a perfect day for it too – blue skies and lots of sunshine, long may it last! I spent the

Apologies for not blogging sooner, there has been so much going on this week I've not been able to keep up. I feel a bit like a fish swimming against the tide at the moment. Lots of decisions have been coming at us thick and fast, not the really big ones like "where do you want us to

Well – what an excellent week we have had with the weather. Everyone is now smiling on site and real progress is being made with the footpaths, road and most importantly the ground source heat pump coils. On Friday the Scottish Power electricity poles arrived for our incoming supply and I actually

March! Already! And as many of you know we are opening to boats at the end of the month. This is presenting quite a challenge to the Land and Water team who have promised me finished roads and at least one finished footpath to each set of jetties. And yesterday and today the sun has shone, so what

Since I last blogged I sneaked off to the Boat and Caravan Show at the NEC for a day, telling Angus that it was important work event. He didn't seem convinced but humoured me nonetheless. It was a very interesting event, with lots of interesting things to see. A few boat builders were showing

Quite a bit of progress to report today, not least in the Facilities building which now has windows, doors, a floor and plastered walls and ceilings! It looks amazing and the views from the moorers Overwater Coffee Lounge are lovely. I met with our new marina supervisor this week. From mid March

Wow – what a hectic week it's been, not really helped by the fact that it's half term and the children, refreshed fron their week away skiing, have been running around at a hundred miles an hour. It's been difficult to get onto site this week because construction sites and small

Some of you may have noticed it's been a while – apologies – Angus, the children and I sneaked off for a family holiday while we still can – we had the kind offer of using a ski chalet in the French Alps. In the first 24 hours we were there we had over a foot of snow.Three days later it

The last day of the month has brought something rather unexpected – SNOW!I was on site yesterday and we had a glorious afternoon, cold but very sunny – the jetties almost glowed in the sunshine. This morning was completely different with a good inch of snow on the ground.The children were