Ahhh holidays, time to catch up!

Its been a big few months!

Firstly the best bit, Alfie is now 5 months old and has just seen his first Christmas which has been fantastic. Busy times.

Following closely though is major movement on the Nannup front.

Plans for house all approved by Council
So as of  November our plans for a strawbale house to be built in the Shire of Nannup are all approved. Plan details and pics are below in my last post. This proved to be a relatively easy step in the  end with the only query being the weather resistance of the render we will be using.  We quickly sorted this out with some of the details we learned back in March from Brian Hodge at Anvil. Our lime/earthen render has been used one many buildings including some in harsher climates than South West WA with no problems.

A new caravan
Unfortunately at the same time we got approval for the house a change in Council rules occurred which has stopped residential use of sheds. A fair amount of effin' and blindin' then ensued as we were told that only a caravan or similar would be approved for us to live in - a caravan which we would just be parking next to our lovely dry and warm shed, seemingly a total nonsense. Anyway there is apparently some hope this rule will be changed again but in the meantime we've been really lucky to pick up a van for $1000 with a new fridge and A/C. Its very heartening to see how things can work out well even when it seems constant blockades are put up to reaching your goal.

Shed Pad is now done
With some amazing work from Danny Miller at Do Your Block Earthmoving & Construction, we've now completed the site works and concrete pad for our shed.

Looking east from the retaining wall.

Alison and Elise surveying the pad

Looking west down onto the freshly soaked pad