This photo is from the opposite river bank and shows our plot, bounded by the fence that Terry has just put up for us.
Keith has been drawing out designs, and now Pottons have made them into a first draft that we have been poring over all weekend.
It's difficult for some of us to imagine how a blue-print will look in real life, so Keith has made 3D images on the Grand Designs CAD package, but I'm not publishing them until we've made a few more alterations!
Our house must have a name, as there are no numbers in Denford High Street. Neither of us has ever lived in a house with a name (unless you count Keith's school).
We're imaging saying the name to call centre staff - but maybe any name sounds daft when you're spelling it over the phone.
Many years ago, our friend Lucy, who knows her art, gave us a print of The Bright House by August Macke, which we love. Is this just too obvious?
Keeping it simple, we remembered that in Suffolk, Keith used to work at The Surgery, The Street, Holbrook. If we adopted this approach, we could call it The New House. We probably don't need to worry about it dating - we still drive over the New Bridge to Irthlingborough (built 1936)
As a child, Keith used to play in a stream called the Minnehaha, and we wondered if we could call the house Laughing Water, although it is so sedate that Mildly Amused Water might be more appropriate.
I've been re-reading John Clare's poetry which I loved as a child, especially his "Proposal on Building a Cottage" but it doesn't help on finding a house name.
Anyway, we have until the footings are dug to ponder all the ideas!
