We’ve not made much progress since Christmas, but we have done a few odds and ends.
Odd
We’ve been meaning to make a little shelter to sell our eggs from for ages, because otherwise people tend to wander into the garden and walk into Vicky’s office while she’s working.
So we used some left-over fibre roof tiles, some odds of batten, and a couple of chunks of joist, and created a snazzy little egghouse.
Bits and pieces
There’s enough room for an egg holder, some egg boxes, and a honesty jar.
Yum yum
£1.20 for half a dozen eggs, half the proceeds go to the British Hen Welfare Trust, which is where we go to rehome ex-battery chickens.
End
There’s been a gaping hole above the tunnel from the living room to the Rayburn Room for aaaaages.
We finally got around to building a frame and whacking some wood-wool panels up there ready for plastering—eventually.
Tidy tunnel
The Rayburn has left the building…
We knew we wouldn’t be using the old oil-fired Rayburn anymore because we recently switched over to gas, rather than oil. It’s not worth converting it, so we’ll probably get an electric Aga when we do the new kitchen.
Joe advertised the Rayburn on Facebook, and a couple came to pick it up—and we got 150 beans for it. Winning!
Pretty heavy. Rollers were useful.
Looking forward to turning the Rayburn Room into a library, and installing a woodburning stove in the fireplace.
All ready for plastering, beautifying, a new hearth stone, and a woodburner
Oh and a proper solid floor
And finally, having spent months wobbling around on bits of shaky plywood and OSB, and wondering if Joe would put his foot through the floor again, we decided to lay a proper subfloor.
We had a little help from Kenda and Mike to get started:
Men doing manly floor things
The rest of it looks like this only without the gaping holes:
The beginnings of a solid floor
And now the whole floor is screwed down and solid, and you can jump up and down on it and everything.
Hurrah!
