Madz Birthday Cake.

Despite being 17, Madz still wanted to have a pirate ship as a Birthday Cake. As usual my skilled wife produced a fab replica of the Black Pig.

Garvey punches above his weight.

The shockingly gorgeous future Mrs Garvey. Certainly not the hippocrocapig I assumed would accompany him everywhere! He's a very lucky boy.

Mini Cooper

The latest addition to the Cottrell fleet. Maddy Rosie's car. She is a very spoilt girl!

Bloging the Blogers

Jon and Nad's are studying the now famous Cottrell blog.

Rob Learns to Write

Following the untimely demise of Tony Heart. Rob takes up the mantle. Do you know what it is yet?

New Years Resolution.

Having resolved to cut back on chocolate, Louise is now just having a single weekly delivery.

Professor Chris Lines from Dyne Technology

If you ever need inspiring about Science. Go and see Chris. This is him whacking twelve squillion volt into a leak detector. Its not quite a flux capacitor, but it nearly is

My beautiful wife.

This is double beautiful Mrs Cottrell. She's treating me to a night out at Carluccio's. I'm a very lucky boy.

Cornwall's posh greenhouse

During another very busy day Cottrell and Garvey visit Cornwall's largest greenhouse. We had already proff'd dairy products and now we need to acquire a cucumber. Hopefully there will be one in this vegetable frame.

Rodda's are my favorite customer.

Look what I've just been given! A full house of dairy products. I'm a lucky boy!

Summer house progress report.

Now with a proper roof, its just waiting for the shingles. The beginings of a front step and a proper glazed window. Made and glazed by me. I even cut the glazing bar profiles. I only broke one piece of glass during a particular downs moment.

My first door

I've never made a door before. I'm very pleased as its all my own work (except for the bits that Nick did. Which was most of it. Well actual its the 1st door that I've held still whilst someone else did all the technical bits like drilling and sawing and stuff)

Hard at work again.

Rob finally gets to grip with Quotewerks! Today we are basking in the luxury of Macdonalds.

Rob Garvey

Having finally worked out how to use his Sat Nav, Rob arrives for coffee having driven to a burnt out farm and not the luxury Golf and Country Club we arranged to meet at.

Where do you keep your guitar?

The obvious location is in the kitchen on an old school desk. What!!

Its not easy being a model.

Madz is modeling the stuff that F is making for textiles. Unfortunately its below freezing and so she had to wear my coat.

David Bailey?

F is becoming a right good photographer. This is her taking pictures of cold things.

A cold bird

Its so cold that even the Black Bird has caught the web

The dog is stupid

Jazz just before the ice broke. He's very stupid indeed.

The half build Summer House in the winter sun

When its finished it will be a startling piece of architecture

Roof on and waiting for windows

It got too cold for me to carry on!

F standing inside to give it some perspective

It's smaller than you think.

It starts to take shape

The roof fell on Joe's head but other than that its all going very well

The start of the Summer House

We've decided to build a Summer House. Having looked in the shops they seem very expensive so I'm going to do it myself.