It was the North Tawton Art Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, with plenty on for the budding artists in our community. We enjoyed an art trail, the exhibition at the Community Centre, and a fabulous collection of Phyllis Harris’s work, but my favourite bit?
It was blowing a gale here on Saturday, but I was determined to make the most of the sunshine, so I got outside and started tidying up the roses in the courtyard. Although I felt rather buffeted by the wind, every once in a while, it palled, and I could feel the warmth of the sun on my back, making me excited for the spring that’s just around the corner.
The other day, I was asked what sets us apart from garden building suppliers. How are we different from online companies where you can buy a timber garden building ‘off the shelf’.
Chances are you don’t want to, but for just a few seconds cast your mind back to March 2020, when the first lockdown hit. The ‘work from home’ guidance came in almost overnight, with people scrabbling to put together home offices, find keyboards, mice and all the necessary tech.
Despite January being a tad on the depressing side - thanks to the post-Christmas lull, the drizzle and the uncomfortably low temperatures – it’s also an optimistic one.
It’s almost always sensible to kill two birds with one stone, and that’s exactly what many of our clients do with their timber garden buildings. Rather than having ‘just’ an office, or ‘just’ a workshop, they split their space in two, and kill two birds with one stone.
Last week I spoke about our brand new combination display building; part ‘place to get your head down and get something done’ and part ‘place to store all your tools’.
For many of us, lockdown was a time to think, to re-calibrate and re-prioritise. We had the time to plan our lives, to decide what we want our homes to be like and how we wanted to spend our time. But as lockdown eased, the busyness of life returned for many of us, and some of those plans got put on the backburner.
