… is the time that I knock off work in the winter. But today, even though I heard the reminder go off, I carried on working for another good half hour at least.
This was because I was enjoying myself today, just for a change.
Having finished what I wanted to do for now in the bar, and so I restarted work downstairs on the first floor (I’m living in the attic for the moment, which I have converted into a little studio, in case you were wondering).
First job was to finish off the plasterboarding on the upper part of the stairway up to the attic. There were three pieces that needed to be fitted, and two of them needed some intricate cutting. As well as the cutting, I needed to fit some more studding on the walls to which the plasterboard would be nailed. As a result, that took all morning to do all of that.
What didn’t help was that I had the wood for the studding propped up outside the house. And not only is it soaking wet right through, I couldn’t bring it into the house, with the scaffolding obstructing the front door. As a result I had to cut it up outside – just as well that it’s stopped raining now (we had 21mm of rain through the night, incidentally).
This afternoon, I started to rip up the old flooring on the first floor landing, and I’ve begun to replace it – at least the first layer. There are going to be two layers of flooring on the first floor because I decided that I wanted some new, clean wood on the floor in the bedroom, so I’m going to nailit over what is already there.
I’ve solved the problem of how I’m going to bring things up to the first floor. It can’t come up the stairs as the turns are too tight, so the floor on the landing will be hinged so that it can be lifted up and objects pulled up through the hatch in the floor. It works fine in the barn, so why not here?
With some good music belting out of the MP3 player too – particularly the world’s second-best ever live album
It’s about time that I had a good day working on something that I enjoy doing.
