Installing the shepherd's hut
Sometimes things happen which make you pinch yourself. Having our shepherd's hut is a bit like that. I can't quite believe that something that I have always loved but have always thought was the kind of thing that belonged to other people now belongs to me. The idea has been germinating for a while. When my father in law came to live with us we converted the room which had been my study into a bed-sitting room for him. I need to be careful here because Ian's study is and always has been a four foot square porch which is crammed to overflowing and so cold in winter that he needs to wear sheepskin boots to sit at the computer! But I did miss it. There was no other sensible option for accommodating my father in law and now the room is in constant use as opposed to the couple of hours a day when I used to sit at the desk, working, blogging or reading because the light by the window and the view are both good. So it is a good thing that the room...