15th November.......

Sorry about the silence.  I have been in London for a bit of R & R, which was great.  Went to see the Cheapside Hoard, nothing like some fantastic sparkling jewels to cheer you up.  Especially when they are accompanied by period portraits showing how the jewels would be worn.

However, back to the house. No photos today as the camera is still in the car; I had taken some pictures of the interior of the chimney to show the people at Bonk and Co. from where we have bought our Barbas wood burning stove, then left the camera in the car afterwards.  (Car in garage having a service!) Stove is now paid for and we are just waiting for the floors to be finished so that we can get George, our bricklayer, to come and deal with the fireplace and fit the stove for us.  Not quite our room, and rather a small picture, but hope you get the idea.

The gas engineer has started to connect the gas, and put up the boiler, but it is not completed - can't understand why things can be finished off once they have been started.  Anal retention syndrome, maybe. So many bits done, but nothing completed.  No wonder I am slightly crazy.

Today we will be mostly........ doing some more on the exterior and working on the floor finish ready for varnishing, if we think it is good enough!

The en-suite shower has been fibre glassed, don't quite know what the next step is.  I think it is deciding on a gel-coat colour for the final coat.  Were going for a pale grey, but think now we could go for some jolly colour.

Yesterday we also went to have a look at sofas... have decided on The Sixty Seven from G Plan, but have to do a bit of measuring to see whether there is enough room for the large sofa, or whether we would go for the smaller sofa, and two armchairs?  Then have to decide what colour?

Look back for more interesting events soon.........