90-year-old Stuart Grant spent decades transforming an old farm building into a new home that looks like something out of a Lord of the Rings film.
After starting work on it, Stuart then moved to Australia for a year. Having loved life Down Under so much Stuart lived in Oz for 14 years and and travelled back to the UK overland, via Afghanistan.
He had bought land and planned to renovate a larger house. Stuart said:"I moved in in 1984 but it wasn't done up, I was living with concrete mixers - I was just doing it in slow motion. I put on a roof and doors, there were just doorways." He added:"I thought I would make it comfortable while I'm doing up the house. I was getting such a buzz out of doing it - I don't know how much it cost. I cut the wood myself from fallen trees and collected stones from the river for the stonework. I put the stairs in."The house took quite a few years but Stuart revealed he loved doing it"so much and got carried away". He revealed that doing creative projects has kept him young.
He said:"People think I'm clever because I do original things, but they've not tried. I'll be 90 in less than two weeks but I feel like a teenager - People can't believe I'm 90. I've travelled the
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