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vivienz
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Another bit of positive news - our request to change the name of the new (replacement) house to Blackmore House has been approved. OH is pleased, but I'm still resisting on the doorbell tune.
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To say I'm thrilled is an understatement. Our architect gave me a call this afternoon to say that planning permission has been granted and with no changes to what we submitted. I was fully prepared for the worst and even had a plan B in place so that we could deal with the summer bat roost in the roof of the existing bungalow before it becomes active again at the end of spring, so I can set aside that bit of scheming now.
I had some concern that the planning officer would object to the larger size of the new building or its increased height but my concerns were unnecessary. One of the main parts of our briefing to the architect was that we didn't want more rooms than we have in our current house (3 bed with a loft conversion), but we wanted larger rooms. Much larger. In this case, size really does matter. Anyhow, all's well for the time being so we best our game face on and start the hard work part of it.
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I thought it would be timely to get a blog started on our proposed new build in north Dorset as I'm eagerly (driving me nuts) anticipating the decision on our planning permission which is due on Thursday. That said, it may well be a damp squib as little that comes out of North Dorset Council is on time, apart from the direct debit requests for council tax.
So let's deal with the proposed name of the new build as here lies something I don't talk about too much in public. If you take a look at a map of north Dorset, you will see an area called the Blackmore Vale marked on it, so it would be natural to assume that's what we propose to name to the new house after, given that we aren't too imaginative about these things and that's where it's going to be.
You would be wrong.
OH has a deep and abiding love of heavy metal rock music and, as far as he's concerned, the house is named in tribute to his all-time rock guitar playing hero, Ritchie Blackmore. As far as I'm concerned, it's still the first explanation. Particularly since I told him that the doorbell would not blast out the riff from Smoke on the Water whenever anyone calls. Or any other riff/rock anthem/heavy rock associated musical theme that comes to mind.
Have I mentioned that I'm looking into really good acoustic insulation around the house?
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