Another year older

October has been so hectic, It appears that I failed to blog at all. I shall make up for it now with an update as to the ins and outs of the past few weeks. In an attempt to get motivated to working, I have volunteered my services to various people helping out with their projects. This has seen me roofing, dry lining, installing electrics and scaffolding to mention just a few of the jobs. To coincide with that we have had a pretty constant flow of visitors ending today with the departure of my chief motivator, Stevey, and Laura after a week here without their children.

During Steves visit, we managed to get a whole load of jobs ticked off the list. The key one being the building of a hard standing outside the workshop where we have parked the roulotte trailer in preparation to start the building works. Following on from that Steve got out his tyre fitting kit and changed the two perished tyres on the trailer, no mean feat I have to say and all credit where credit is due, he did a fantastic job. We also had Greg over for a day to help fell some trees in the valley and burn a huge pile of rotting branches and twigs. If the rain holds off for a day next week, we may try and do some more.

On the night before my birthday we were ravished by the same storm that hit the UK taking 23 tiles off the various buildings and leaving us very exposed if the weather was to turn wet. Because of this, I spent 5 hours of my birthday on the roof in the gales replacing broken tiles, crochets and battens. Hopefully this will be the last time this year that I need to get up there.

With a small amount of persuasion from Laura, Jane has now agreed that we can get rid of the only bath in the main house replacing it with a double shower. The washing machine is being moved over to the gite and the toilet will be moved to where the washing machine is. You may wonder why we want to change things about. The bigger picture is that we are going to put a door way through the wall right where the toilet is at present. This will mean we can access the banqueting suite without having to go outside which should, in the long term, allow us to incorporate the room into the main house and therefore get much more use out of it. Watch this space.

Tomorrow sees the arrival of MIL which in turn will see anything and everything spring cleaned and polished including the kids if they stand still too long.