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Daisybank arrives at Hoe Grange
January 11, 2011
Building, General, Peak District, self catering holiday, Tractor,Daisybank arrives on site Daisybank cabin arrives at Hoe Grange on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, having travelled down from the Island Leisure factory in Perth, Scotland Rolling off the lorry onto tractor power...
Daisybank takes to the road
January 10, 2011
Accessible Holidays, Building, Peak District, Snow, Tourism,New accessable cabin Daisybank is on the road heading for the Peak District, and should be with us in the morning. As you can see the Island Leisure factory is once again struggling against the snow. Delivery is a day behind what we expected due to having to clear snow to permit the lorries in to load. Daisybank ready for the road Clearing snow at Island Leisure Daisybank leaves the warm factor Daisybank delivery...
David down yet another hole Final preparations means that David has been busy digging trenches yet again - this time for the waste pipes to connect up to the biodievsity sewage tank ready for the arrival of the new Daisybank log cabin on Monday. Yesterday's snow here in the Peak District has disappeared as quickly as it came, thank goodness, but it is a different story in Perth at the Island Leisure factory. Dasiybank cabin was supposed to have been loaded onto the lorries yesterday ready for an early start on Monday morning to travel down ...
A brief window in the cold weather has allowed work to progress on Daisybank foundations, After the digger finished yesterday and the weather forecast said it would not freeze until Thursday night. (You cannot lay concrete if it is going to freeze hard as it crumbles.) We quickly leveled everything up, set up the concreting boards and ordered 3 lorry loads of concrete for today. Ready to pour concreate Three Lorrys arrived at the alloted time and a couple of hours of back breaking work started. Pouring concreate with the help of a couple of...
A miserable damp day in the Derbyshire hills, but digging the foundations for the new log cabin has finally resumed now that the snow has disappeared. Once the big digger had finished removing the large stones, David swung into action with his laser to check the levels ready for concreting tomorrow - let's hope the weather holds. Felicity Digging Daisybank foundations...







