Well, to tell the truth I have had a couple before. The original one fell to pieces when we tried to open it after 20 years of being closed, and so I replaced it with another door, which I nailed shut and that was that.

But since I moved into the lean-to-that-will-be-the-kitchen, it’s been pretty inconvenient not having a proper front door. everyone and everything has to traipse through my little room and when start bringing construction material and the like into the house it will be impossible.

So now I have a front door that opens and closes and is even fitted with a bolt to keep it closed when I go out.

It’s quite good and works quite well, but it’s not very substantial (a bit of 10mm chipboard that I had lying around). A good puff will probably bring it down but let’s not get talking about elitism or sexual preference.

You can see the windows at the top of the door frame. When I put in the suspended floor I’ll take the windows out and simply move the door up the frame in order to give me the required height.

But having seen how bright it gets in that corner when the door was opened, I’ll be going for a door with glass in it.

As well as a front door I also have power and light up in the attic. This is real progress as there wasn’t any up there previously even though there used to be mains electric here in the dim and distant past.

And talking of mains electricity I’m off to LIDL early tomorrow morning. They are having a sale of LED light bulbs – both mains and 12-volt. The mains ones include GU10 fittings and I have plenty of sockets for those so I’m going for a shed-load. And all for 4 Euros 47 each too!

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