Well having got back in one piece from rural Gloucestershire I was off to rural Somerset today. I didn’t have to go far, just far enough over the bridge, (not saying which one!) to look at a barn conversion. To be accurate, and we surveyors do have to be accurate, it was a converted piggery! It was converted about ten years ago after the previous owner passed on, but for years he had no interest in pigs and the whole place was a wreck – I'm surprised somebody even bought it, but they did, and a little ‘ham fistedly' (small pun not intended) sorted it out into it’s present very pleasant accommodation. The present vendors have, however had to sort out a few problems and my Client will have some more ‘sorting out’ to do, but it is in a most delightful setting and only a short distance from the centre of the city, so they’ve got the best of both worlds…   more »