John and Andrea Udberg

We have been in our new house for three weeks now and all is well… There was a minor plumbing incident with my pipes for the washing machine but that’s fixed now

Photos from December are up which show Andrea and I cooking at Powburn (and nearly having to eat it all ourselves after the snow moved in…), Christmas day and the first of many card nights with Graham and Beth in the house.

January photos are also up with the snow on New Years day and a brief appearance from our new bay window curtains!

There are a few new photo’s up starting here.

We are still settling into out new home.  Everything is out of the flat now and we are busy with finishing touches…

Happy New Year everyone!

Well we made it in.  Despite the ice and snow.

In fact, the only slip was by Graham and he only carried one thing! Cheers Graham

The big old house is feeling like a home now, the tree is up, the kitchen is stocked and there’s beer in the fridge.

Pics will be up in a few days… enjoy your Christmas everyone!

John and Andrea.

We have been working flat out on the house.  Not just us by any means either, Mary and especially Dave have been really putting the hours in (they must really want us out of the flat ).

There are some new photographs of the house up here, these were from just after the plastering was complete, it looks a lot different now!

A few weekends ago we went down to see Shona and Simon in Birmingham to mark the occasion of Simon’s 30th.  As usual, good times were had and there are pics up here.

The “in by Christmas meter” is currently on a 9.9 out of 10! Current pics to come after the weekend.

We’ve had a great weekend of friends, football, fine food and fun at the house!

Our long-term lodger, Debs, is leaving us on Monday and Julie was visiting this weekend, so today was the perfect opportunity to exploit, I mean have assistance, at the house.

We were all present, along with Graham and Beth, at Newcastle United’s victory yesterday.  Sitting right down by the corner flag where Carroll celebrated his equaliser.

Today we all descended upon the house along with Mary and Dave to continue stripping, painting and cleaning.  We have now had the house 2 months and next week should hopefully see the end to wallpaper stripping.  It’s been a long time coming.

As you can see from the new photos the French doors were fitted last week, we are still waiting for them to be finished.  We now have a consumer unit instead of the old fuse box and the remaining building work should be finished in the coming week.  Plastering is set to commence in 2 weeks.

The “in by Christmas meter” is currently on a 7 out of 10.