Well, you all be pleased to know that after almost 2 years in the making, our tenders have finally gone out to our prospective builders. The date for response is the 1st of October and we plan to break ground as soon as possible after that date.
Thank god for Mark Boyd is all I can say. His help and support through this process has been outstanding and friends don't come much better than this. He's not a bad architect either :-) As most of you know, we had hoped to have started long ago and the last few months have seen our frustrations rise to new heights - but it has been Mark who has kept us moving along and maintaining focus to reach this day.
As one of our other friends Annie put it, we're well on the journey to realising our dream and it's going to be truly fantastic. I'm with Annie... the way this year has flown it won't be long before we're all having cocktails on the lanai.
Fancy a Long Cointreaupolitan anyone?
We get a lot of responses from people directly from the email notification. Given my IT challenges, these don't make it back to the blog. I thought I would add a couple for you that we received on this post....
ReplyDeleteFrom Molly - OMG...now I am really getting excited, and can see it now all my trips home..well 1 per year are going to be at the Escape Retreat...I CANT WAIT!!!!! xxx
And from gorgeous Annie who I referred to in the post..
"can't wait !
We are opening a Corellis in Devonport, so will have some money for the plane fare.
So proud of you both ! love Annie Chris and hankxxxxxxx"