tiddely pom...

spring is well and truely here, the fruit trees are blossoming, me tatties are sprouting and three ducks have come to live in the garden, awwwww... i think they're cute, simon think's they'd be cuter served up in an orange sauce ;)

all is going great guns here too. after me boys near fatal interaction with a burning tent in maroc he has been cracking on big style and the lounge and bedroom really feel as though they've entered a state of construction (rather than destruction - you have to break eggs, as people keep telling me...)

there's still loads of work to do to these two rooms, 'lectrics need to be chased in, timber windows ordered, the living room floor needs to come up and be relaid and whilst we're doing this we need to decide whether to lay underfloor heating. plus a stove/fire must be ordered and a flu put up that there chimney. the list goes on.

simon managed to dig out the old fire and surround and found an inglenook, which really opens up the room.

we bought a nice chunk of dougy fir and it's be inserted as a rather handsome, and if i might say, impressive lintel above the fireplace. some cob blocks and earth/lime mix were used to build up the fireplace surround.

the lintel above the lounge window has also be replaced with a length of larch we had left over from putting the bedroom beams in.

all the lounge ceiling joists were ripped out and replaced with new, some of the old ones were barely hanging on in the walls. they also needed respacing, as an 'extra' joist had been added to the fray at some point - you can see above the new joists set in wall with lime and cob mix, with one of the old spaces stuffed inbetween.

a handy mate came round and laid our new bedroom floor/lounge ceiling - we choose quite cheap pine boards that we'll eventually treat and stain. for the time being they've been covered up stairs so they're protected whilst work continues.


s'all rather grand! plus we got someone working on our extension plans - hurray!