Summer update

We're living in the gite for the foreseeable future.  Very glad it's not a caravan!

 Been doing various very dull and longer-than-I-thought-it-would-take jobs, like doing the drain properly.

 The original Breton fireplace was taken out in the 60s and a small coal grate was put in.  I have taken the small coal grate out and am putting a Breton fireplace back in!  We're getting a woodburner with backboiler and want something nice for it to stand on.  Took forever to do the hearth, but pleased with how it's going so far.  Dead level as well, for once!

Also re-enforced a rotten roof timber by putting a new one in front and screwing it in.  Nice bit of planed and oiled oak, which will be showing in the bedroom after the wall's been re-plastered.

Also working on the electrics and have been planing some oak posts to hold up a possibly supporting wall that has been knocked through to make the living room bigger.