the stairwell

As you can imagine, the hardest part to board is the stairwell. Here it is before:



The window is frosted and looks over the gloomy leylandii, so we have to make sure there are plenty of downlighters. That means Keith has to cut holes in the boards that go on the ceiling - and cut them very accurately.
The 2 back bedrooms are still the only ones with natural light, so one is our office and the other the workroom.
This week we dismantled the boards put across the stairwell for safety, boarded the walls up from the ground floor, then put in fresh batons and temporary boards to make a stable platform for us to work on, including lifting the boards to the ceiling.
We did take time to eat at our local - only 100 yards from our new home. New landlords Sam & Dan have gone into partnership with an excellent chef and long may it continue!
That was on Thursday when it rained a lot, so we were delighted to see our new guttering was working very well (the downpipe isn't in yet!)



Most of the week was lovely, and a number of people had taken the opportunity to canoe down the brook at the bottom of our garden, and there were a lot of narrow boats navigating the Nene as well.

Bricklaying is no further forward, as we waited most of this week for the scaffolding to be altered.

A further note on gloves: Axminster where we buy a lot of the tools we need, do gloves in a size 8 - 2 sizes too big for me, but still a much better fit than the standard size 10s!