Building a house
I have just been for coffee after yoga outside in a friend's garden. We were catching up after our last week away and I was telling her about the progress which my sister and her husband are making on building their house (a real with their own hands sort of build) when another friend said "You mean you and your sister are both having new houses built? That's odd! I don't know anyone other than you who is building a new house and then there are two of you from the same family! How did that happen?" I hadn't thought about it as an oddity but I suppose I see what she meant. And as to how did that happen, I am not really sure! I am not even sure who began the whole process. I know that my brother in law, who is an intensely practical man and an electrical contractor by trade, has always wanted to build his own house. I know that Ian and I have always been interested in houses and that for some years we had the idea that building a new house m...