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Thursday 5th July 2012 – 24mm of rain.

hanging cloud les guis virlet puy de dome franceThat’s what we’ve had so far today. And this photo aside tells its own story – a nice hanging cloud drifting slowly up the valley behind the house. That sums up the weather – it was like that all day and I’m fed up.

In other news, I had to make more muesli for breakfast, and it seems that I have run out of desecrated coconut. That’s not very good. And after breakfast I worked on the web pages for a while but I’m also not ashamed to say that I went back to bed for half an hour too – this weather is so flaming depressing.

Later on, I switched the inverter on and sanded down the polyfilla that I had put on all of the joints of the plasterboard in the cupboard – may as well take advantage of the weather. After lunch, I put another layer – the final one – on the joints. At the next available opportunity I’ll sand that off, paint the walls and fit the new laminate flooring. Then I can build the shelves and start moving the stuff in there from out of where the bathroom is going to be.

I had an hour in the lean-to too and I’ve sorted out a pile of stuff in there too. That was something else that needed doing. And then, by way of surprise, it stopped raining briefly at about 18:00. Briefly, I say, but long enough for me to finish putting the first coat of of wood treatment on the exposed new wood on the lean-to. When I have the chance, I’ll put the second coat on there and then paint the rendering.

It’s amazing how much you can do when you have the time and place to do it all. I really Am starting to become organised.

Tuesday 15th February 2011 – I’ve been falling asleep here.

Yes, it’s only 22:25 and I’m worn out. I’m clearly working too hard.

So what did we do today? Terry has spent all day in the toilet – but that’s nothing t do with Liz’s cooking of course.He’s been tiling. It’s not easy for firstly there isn’t much room to move around and secondly, there are too many crooks and nannies (“as well as nooks and crannies” – ed) in there and they all need to be tiled. And so for most of the day we have been without … err … bathroom facilities which has been something of an inconvenience, if you pardon the expression. This evening though, there’s a toilet connected to the wastepipe with a bucket of water for flushing, and that will have to do.

Liz finished off painting the bathroom while I washed down the walls at the inner side of the living room and then I painted that part of the ceiling with two coats of paint. Following that, we sanded down and painted all of the woodwork in that bit. We are doing the living room in halves because it’s so big, and using the “other half” of the living room as a place to store the tools.

Once all the woodwork was painted we had a go at sanding down the wooden flooring in there. It seems like at one time there’s been one of those rubber-backed carpets on there and the rubber back has melted, staining the wood. So on our hands and knees, we scrubbed away at the damaged part of the floor with 80-grain sandpaper. And you have no idea just how tiring that can be.