We have been busy

It has been quiet here for some time as we have been working hard painting both inside and outside. The Shed has been delayed time after time because of the weather. It has been quite extraordinary the change every time Michael tried to work on it. In the end he gave up and went on to other jobs until the weather improved. Then after a week of summer like weather he came back and it snowed!!! BUT we are now almost finished - only a window to fit.


















The wall - to stop the traffic calling in the bedroom - has also been built - block wall and then railway sleeper inner wall with a bed of bricks and broken tiles inbetween. On top of the infil will be soil and then strawberry plants.

















Looks good from up the road towards Boston

and the view from the house has been enhanced somewhat from a rusty old shed

An added bonus is that I have at last after 20 years got somewhere to keep all the old 78rpm records which I collected in the 1980s. As I unpacked the tea chests it was obvious that the rats had been using them for a nesting place but with a bit a tender care and a soapy water bath they will come up like new. Pity about the sleaves though. All nibbled and shredded.

As you can see the old paint brushes have taken a good bashing and I recon we have used about 100 litres of paint now and it all needs another coat. The next coat will be a lot easier now that the holes in the blocks have had their first coat.