But that’s enough about me – let’s talk about the weather instead.

So first task this morning was to clean the stairwells and the ground floor underneath the stairs. That’ll teach me to drop a box of wood and sawdust, won’t it? But now even the stairs look impressive.

I thought that I would take a photo of the ground floor before I begin to clutter it up. You can see over there all of the wood that will be tne new shelves, the kitchen worktops and the new window. It’s all there.

Than I brought in the little shelf unit that is hawked aroud the place. That’s now in the corner next to the table, and I spent the morning putting all of the screws, nails and all kinds of things on there. This means of course that the shelving unit behind the stairs on the first floor – the one that I built 18 months or so ago, is now almost empty. I can, if I so desire, start to move stuff down there from up here if I so desire.

At lunchtime I went round to Cécile’s again. It seems that her mail redirection has expired because there was a pile of stuff in her box, but not the letter that she was expecting.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I did another pile of sorting out and collected up some more stuff that really belongs in there, and finally, just as it was going dark, I brought in three demi-chevrons. I’ve measured up in the downstairs lean-to and tomorrow I’m going to be starting on what I’ve been tidying up downstairs for – I’m going to use the space to work in – and start to build the set of shelves for the downstairs lean-to.

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