So, here you are.

You will recall that we had a demolition day on 2 June 2007, during which we demolished our old rather crappy garage which came with the house when we bought it in 2005.

Here are a few pics for your viewing pleasure.

to this:

This was halfway through the day:

For your information, plans are afoot to build a new garage at some point. If you know anyone who can draw plans for us, give us a shout.

It didn’t last long, alas – it was more or less gone by lunchtime.

You may not have realised, but Rachel and I have now been happily married for nearly seven months. Yes, you read right, seven months. Amazing how time flies, doesn’t it?

For those of you who are keen to see the wedding photographs, all the ones taken by our official photographer, Jon Perkin, can be found here. If you’d like copies of any of these photos, simply add them to a shopping basket and purchase them. The smallest size pictures are 20p each, and they’ll be delivered to your door.

On 29 January 2007, I became the proud (joint) owner of a brand new Toyota Yaris Zinc D4D. I actually passed my driving test on 19 May 1998, and up to this point, had never bought a car, preferring to spend my money on university-related costs.

Now that I’ve moved home permanently, and Rachel’s Ford Fiesta was getting on a bit (5 years this year), we decided to buy a new car, and so we did.

We’ve called the car “Yarry” (although I prefer “Inky”), and I absolutely love driving it. Despite being a small car, it is very spacious inside, and it has all the mod cons; power steering, electric windows, AC, alloy wheels, CD player. It is a metallic eclipse black colour. The engine it has, a 1.4 diesel, is equivalent to a 1.6 petrol, so it is quite a powerful car to drive.

Oh yes, and it is an environmentally-friendly car. It’s CO2 emissions are so low that the car tax is only £50 per year!

When I switched it on for first time, I was in doorway between the kitchen and the garden, and started hoovering, sucking up the leaves. I then heard Rachel scream, looked around and realised that the bag that the leaves go in wasn’t completely zipped up, so shredded leaves ended up all over the kitchen, which I had just been cleaned!

/screams