Frun började prata om att måla hyllorna i det gamla skafferiet redan i januari. Det var startskottet på en segdragen renovering av hela mellanrummet, det lilla rummet mellan vardagsrum och kök. Börjar äntligen bli klart.  

Ett par hasselbuskar gav plötsligt en viss skörd. Det verkar råda olika meningar om när nötterna är klara för skörd och hur man ska ta hand om dem. Men skördade gjorde vi i slutet av september.

Dags att bygga ett nytt skydd för vattenanslutningen och styrenheten för avloppspumpen. Tänker att överbliven pärlspont skulle kunna användas...

Den gamla hatthyllan över huvudentrén var bara några vinterjackor ifrån att rasa ihop. Samtidigt ville vi ha en extra pärlspontsvägg för att avgränsa entrén lite.

I slutet av september blev det äntligen gjort. Nya vindskivor, renoverad och ommålad träfasad, fönsterplåt ovanför fönstret mot läckage. Resultatet blev över förväntan.

Den gamla bänken som ingick i husköpet såg sina bästa dagar för länge sedan.

Vissa saker blir man snabbt blind för. Handtaget till ateljédörren hängde på trekvart tills det började bli ohållbart men till slut tog vi tag i saken. Hittade en ny skruv i dörrvredslådan som vi fick på plats efter en del pillande.

November bjöd på rekordvärme fram till nu.

Det gamla fönstret var genomruttet redan när vi flyttade in och glasrutorna ramlade ur, en efter en, samma vinter. Nästan två år senare hamnade det tillräckligt högt på att-göra-listan. Inte helt enkelt att tillverka själv så det blev en beställning hos TOVI Snickeri i Västra Vemmenhög efter tips från grannar.

Återigen har vi ägnat timmar åt att kapa pepparrot så långt ner det går utan stora maskiner. Det här måste få ett slut! Det lär dock inte finnas något annat som hjälper än att gräva upp hela rotsystemet.  

Snart dags att såga upp ett hål i en vägg. Förre ägaren lämnade kvar en del verktyg, bl.a. en gammal tigersåg.  Behövde bara kapa en del av sladden där det blivit avbrott och ansluta den på nytt.    

Lagom till jul kom snön och den första vita julen på mycket länge var ett faktum. En hundpromenad vid Rydsgårds Gods hanns med på annandagen.

Plötsligt krafsade det rejält i väggen i sovrummet på nätterna. När vi tände upp ute i ateljén och tittade upp mot taket tittade plötsligt ett litet huvud fram. Dags att köpa råttfällor! Redan nästa morgon hade vi ett resultat. Det blev några nätter med dålig sömn, lyssnande efter minsta ljud. Ytterligare en råtta fastnade i en annan fälla en vecka senare.

Hey there, welcome to your new home on the web!

Unlike social networks, this one is all yours. Publish your work on a custom domain, invite your audience to subscribe, send them new content by email newsletter, and offer premium subscriptions to generate sustainable recurring revenue to fund your work.

Ghost is an independent, open source app, which means you can customize absolutely everything. Inside the admin area, you'll find straightforward controls for changing themes, colors, navigation, logos and settings — so you can set your site up just how you like it. No technical knowledge required.

If you're feeling a little more adventurous, there's really no limit to what's possible. With just a little bit of HTML and CSS you can modify or build your very own theme from scratch, or connect to Zapier to explore advanced integrations. Advanced developers can go even further and build entirely custom workflows using the Ghost API.

This level of customization means that Ghost grows with you. It's easy to get started, but there's always another level of what's possible. So, you won't find yourself outgrowing the app in a few months time and wishing you'd chosen something more powerful!

For now, you're probably just wondering what to do first. To help get you going as quickly as possible, we've populated your site with starter content (like this post!) covering all the key concepts and features of the product.

You'll find an outline of all the different topics below, with links to each section so you can explore the parts that interest you most.

Once you're ready to begin publishing and want to clear out these starter posts, you can delete the "Ghost" staff user. Deleting an author will automatically remove all of their posts, leaving you with a clean blank canvas.

Your guide to Ghost

• Customizing your brand and site settings
• Writing & managing content, an advanced guide for creators
• Building your audience with subscriber signups
• Selling premium memberships with recurring revenue
• How to grow your business around an audience
• Setting up custom integrations and apps

If you get through all those and you're hungry for more, you can find an extensive library of content for creators over on the Ghost blog.

Getting help

If you need help, Ghost(Pro) customers can always reach our full-time support team by clicking on the Ghost(Pro) link inside their admin panel.

If you're a developer working with the codebase in a self-managed install, check out our developer community forum to chat with other users.

Have fun!

As discussed in the introduction post, one of the best things about Ghost is just how much you can customize to turn your site into something unique. Everything about your layout and design can be changed, so you're not stuck with yet another clone of a social network profile.

How far you want to go with customization is completely up to you, there's no right or wrong approach! The majority of people use one of Ghost's built-in themes to get started, and then progress to something more bespoke later on as their site grows.

The best way to get started is with Ghost's branding settings, where you can set up colors, images and logos to fit with your brand.

Any Ghost theme that's up to date and compatible with Ghost 4.0 and higher will reflect your branding settings in the preview window, so you can see what your site will look like as you experiment with different options.

When selecting an accent color, try to choose something which will contrast well with white text. Many themes will use your accent color as the background for buttons, headers and navigational elements. Vibrant colors with a darker hue tend to work best, as a general rule.

Installing Ghost themes

By default, new sites are created with Ghost's friendly publication theme, called Casper. Everything in Casper is optimized to work for the most common types of blog, newsletter and publication that people create with Ghost — so it's a perfect place to start.

However, there are hundreds of different themes available to install, so you can pick out a look and feel that suits you best.

Inside Ghost's theme settings you'll find 4 more official themes that can be directly installed and activated. Each theme is suited to slightly different use-cases.

• Casper (default) — Made for all sorts of blogs and newsletters
• Edition — A beautiful minimal template for newsletter authors
• Alto — A slick news/magazine style design for creators
• London — A light photography theme with a bold grid
• Ease — A library theme for organizing large content archives

And if none of those feel quite right, head on over to the Ghost Marketplace, where you'll find a huge variety of both free and premium themes.

Building something custom

Finally, if you want something completely bespoke for your site, you can always build a custom theme from scratch and upload it to your site.

Ghost's theming template files are very easy to work with, and can be picked up in the space of a few hours by anyone who has just a little bit of knowledge of HTML and CSS. Templates from other platforms can also be ported to Ghost with relatively little effort.

If you want to take a quick look at the theme syntax to see what it's like, you can browse through the files of the default Casper theme. We've added tons of inline code comments to make it easy to learn, and the structure is very readable.

{{#post}}
<article class="article {{post_class}}">

    <h1>{{title}}</h1>
    
    {{#if feature_image}}
    	<img src="{{feature_image}}" alt="Feature image" />
    {{/if}}
    
    {{content}}

</article>
{{/post}}

See? Not that scary! But still completely optional.

If you're interested in creating your own Ghost theme, check out our extensive theme documentation for a full guide to all the different template variables and helpers which are available.