The plans and the name

Two side notes: first, if you're interested in following along at home, here are the plans. They're not 100% up to date (in particular, they show a rockery on the South side that has been replaced with a concrete retaining wall), but they're pretty close.

Second, if you're curious about the blog name, the inspiration is from a speech by the King of Swamp Castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

Listen, lad, I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all this was swamp. The King said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show him. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in these isles.

We felt this adequately summarized the experience of trying to get the house built, and was appropriate given the "wetland" (for which read "slightly damper patch of ground") that caused us so much trouble in the permitting phase. We had no idea how much more appropriate the name would become when we found out about the soil quality.