The windows are in the house - that is to say some of them are in the window frames and some of them are in the hall waiting to be installed. They're lovely! Ready painted and just needing to be slid into their sockets. They arrived yesterday (Monday).

They came on a ship from Lithuania to Felixstowe then on an artic to the Green Building Store in Yorkshire, who import them, because our drive is too small for an artic. Then they came all the way back down here in a small lorry. Listers of Halifax, no less. The driver was a very nice Yorkshire lad who didn't have many other drops so he kindly helped to unload. It needed four strong men: R, the roofer (who has now finished heroically clipping the tiles) the lorry driver and our friend Eric from Rendlesham, who stayed on afterwards to help Russell put the first windows in.
The first window!

They started on the smaller windows on the top floor cos they're smaller and easier, and R's friend Ali came today to help finish the rest of the top floor.

R and Eric


Ali


The ground floor windows will need a bit more muscle though - they are a lot bigger. R says it'll be a few days. But there's plenty to do to get ready for the plasterer. Battens to hammer onto the walls (and it turns out that the upstairs of the timber frame is a different size from the downstairs so we need two sizes of battens) and Heraklith render board to put on top of the battens. So that'll keep R off the streets for a few days.

My shoulders have been a source of despair and despondency 'cos I thought it was genuine frozen shoulder which can last for many months, or indeed a year or two. But I saw a brilliant physio today who seemed to think that it wasn't primary FS but caused by the garage-demolition setting up a vicious cycle of muscle spasms and stiffening, and she thinks that with gentle exercise and a TENS machine and some other stuff she can have me as fit as a flea in a matter of a few weeks or months. So that's a great relief. Also it's great to have something to do to make a difference - I was feeling a bit hopeless and helpless. I'll let you know how it goes.