Month: March 2009
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MBC goes Twitter
Seems everyone is doing it so why not MyBarnConversion…? I’ve created a Twitter account for mbc – barnconversion I’ll use it to post the latest thoughts, progress and decisions made regarding the development of the barn. As well as a chronological view of what’s happening and when, I hope it’ll act as a to-do list…
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Woodland Garden
Way back in 2007 I put a small raised bed into a clearing in our patch of woodland. We had some old sleepers that needed moving away from the barn and this seemed like a sensible thing to do with them. The bed has a weed control liner and 10 to 12 inches of mixed…
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Building Progress ~ February 2009
As it’s already embarrassingly late I’ll make the February update a whistle-stop tour of what progress has been made. My clay-paint painting is going well (if slowly) although I think in places, where I’ve not been so careful in getting the grain of the application of paint quite right – by that I mean where…
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VAT for barn convertors – Update March 2009
It’s been a while since a VAT update so I thought I’d review the current position, especially in view of the pre-Christmas credit-crunch fuelled reduction in the standard rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15%. My own VAT reclaim will be due soon – by early Summer at the latest, so I thought I’d review…