Hip hip hooray for a red letter day!

 

 

 

Who even knows what "red letter day" actually refers to - our day yesterday was more of a "mustard envelope" kind of day and that was pretty ok by me since that envelope contained our preliminary drawings!

 

This was enormously exciting as it was the first time we got to see the drawn elevations of the house - or its "face".

 

 

And she has a very pretty face:

 

 

That special delivery came on top of a morning spent with my delightful kitchen designer who is doing a sterling job of making me quite beside myself at the thought of the combined cleverness and loveliness she has drawn up for me. Lord knows if her proposal and our budget have any common ground at all but for the time being I am happily lost in a culinary reverie imagining the miraculous food I will surely produce in such a kitchen.

 

And as if that wasn't enough, there was some actual action at the house site - the temporary fencing went up. Now that might not sound so exciting to you, dear Reader, but for us it is the first concrete sign that something is going to happen there.

 

One of the mums at school was clearly tuned in to my excitement and the long view one has to take on this kind of undertaking: she exclaimed "Imagine the day when you put a beautiful bowl of fresh lemons on the kitchen bench - then you will know you are done!".