Plasterboard and skim......R with the electric drill and Lee with the trowel.

checking dimensions is a full-time job

Not a lot to say really, except that every time I go in there's another room ready to paint. Now is the time for all friends to come to the aid of the party - we have plenty of brushes and rollers and we'll soon have the paint!

Anyway, here are the bedrooms, finished:

Louise's room

Emily's room

Kate's room

Our room complete with two toilets

Kitchen, complete with reclining plasterer and his apprentice.

Every day a new room...

or so it seems.

Here's a picture of Kate's room

looking very pristine.

Himself is doing all the hard work while I confine myself to taping building paper (very artistically) and painting windowsills - these are just two pieces of softwood in keeping with our policy of Keeping It Simple (i.e. cheap!)

Here's a better picture of the woodburner

People keep mentioning things like floors and curtains and what are we going to do about them, but, as I was saying to R today, just being in a big lovely house-we-built-ourselves will be fine by me!

Anyway tomorrow is the big day when Lee arrives to cover the place in a thin layer of gypsum.

Real snow this time.


Here's the new wall (and the gas bottles) looking very picturesque



Kate came to the rescue this weekend, like the cavalry but on a bike. Here she is doing high-level window sealing



and here doing the highly-skilled job of leaning-on-a-wall



while R fixes plasterboard in her room.



Here is the woodburner and its flue, newly installed