Howes Castle
A place that belongs to us. No need to worry about nails in walls, paying a key deposit, getting your bond back or even just having that...
Building our castle: A lot can happen in a month
A lot can happen in a month. The weather has changed from oppressively hot to very cool mornings and evenings. The leaves have already...
Building our castle - the roof is coming!
We're adults now. We have a mortgage. It's that kind of feeling, isn't it? Finally, our banking system is in place and we are ready to...
Building our castle - foundations
Took care of home loan matters today and returned to find they had wrapped up the field like a present. Again, this was rain/typhoon...
Building the castle - the beginning
A few days ago, this arrived. The port-a-loo. So that means they're ready to get to work. The reality of us building our house has...
Building our castle - Land Blessing Ceremony
Today marked the most important day in the house-building process so far. In the morning heat we held our "land blessing" or...
Fireworks
Every year each city puts on a one-hour fireworks event, usually in the middle of the summer holidays. They really are quite spectacular...
Building our castle - Day 2-4
Even though the weather hasn't been that great for construction work, the workers have made some progress during the dry intervals. The...
Building our castle - Day 1
It has begun!! I do not have enough time to go into the details that led up to this moment tonight, but construction has begun. The...
The petals have fallen
The cherry blossoms have nearly all fallen off the trees around the Kanto area of Japan, which means that the new school year is well and...
