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<\/a>>Outside this afternoon another 6 buckets went into the wall but it’s slow work despite me standing on the ground today doing the work. <\/p>\nI’ve been filling in two of the vertical cracks, and that has been time-consuming, and also it’s not been easy to move some of the old cement pointing that needs to come out. <\/p>\n
The old metal screwdriver that I use as a chisel is giving up the ghost, I think. I shall have to buy a new one … “this heat really is getting to you” – ed<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I reckon that if I can keep up this schedule, another 5 days will see this wall finished – and then it will be time to start on the long wall and point that.
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But that should be easier … “famous last words” – ed<\/i> … as I’ll be working off the scaffolding and you saw how quickly I did the house wall once I had a scaffolding up there.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I’m impressed with what I’ve done so far. I shan’t know the place when it’s finished, whenever that might be.<\/p>\n
Two phone calls too – one from Marianne telling me that our walk tomorrow at St Hilaire is cancelled as there’s a funeral at the church, and secondly from Rosemary who wanted a chat.<\/p>\n
And I cooked a mega-aubergine-and-kidney-bean doodah to last for the next 3 days and just as I finished, the gas ran out. That’s over 10 months (8th October – I mark the bottles with the date when I connect them) that that bottle has lasted.<\/p>\n
It just shows you the benefits of having the electric steamer and also the new woodstove. A far cry from when I needed to buy a new bottle every three weeks, isn’t it?<\/p>\n