This is the front part of a bakery oven, without the door, which we found under sacking, dust and rubbish in the corner of the barn when we started.

We have decided to save it, clean it up with blacking and install it in to one of the kitchen walls to be a feature above the range cooker. We think it will help to add history and character to our home.

This is what the inside of the Barn looks like as we start this project.

And then we removed the ivy from the top of the front boundary wall. By the way the trees above produce cooking cherries - I can see charry cakes, cherry pies and cherry jam already!!

One of the first jobs wasd to cut off all the dead bits and pieces of ivy stalk that had probably been there for about one hundred and eighty years!!

Have just found these two pictures of the village of Naillat.
I expect I can take better ones, but these will do for now!!

Can't Gavin draw good pictures!! We started the plans for our home on the back of an envelope !! Have to admit, though, that the finished home will probably be slightly diffrent from this plan !! The longer the time between this plan and when we actually get started on the project the more little changes we come up with!!

Gavin is just showing off a few of the treasures we found at the Naillat market!

Can't help feeling that this is going to become a new hobby - trawling markets and fairs for bits and pieces!!

These stilt walking entertainers are following a tradition which goes back to medieval times. Quite a surprise, I can tell you !! We understand that they go from market/fair to market/fair all the time - fantastic !!

I will add general pictures of the village of Naillat when we are next there, but here are a couple of pictures showing the annual market, which is held on the first Sunday of August. What fun and what bargains !!

Is it surprising that our children think we could be 'new age hippies' !! And even 'new age IT experts' !!

We bought our van on e-bay on the internet and drove all the way from the north of Scotland to the south coast of England to pick it up!! It is a bit of an old heap, but we love it!! We bought the caravan in Fife from an advertisement in the local paper!!

And so we set off in August 2005 for our first long stay in the grounds of our Barn. And what a pretty place this was for an overnight stay.