The Laundillary

Dad had a week off work last week.  MG put some plastic sheeting from the polytunnel across the kitchen door and the arch into the laundillary (laundry/utility).  So we can't move round downstairs.  It's protecting the kitchen and sitting room from dad's dust.  Oh the grinder - it's bound to come into play.
he spent most of Tuesday with a chisel hacking gloss paint off the brick walls.  Then his friend Mick the plasterer said oh no yuo don't wanna do it like that...
MG meanwhile used the steam stripper to peel the paint off in sheets, with my help while dad for once was at a loose end. haha, the boot on the other foot.

Yellow glossed bricks with ancient chip fat replaced by plasterboard walls - it's nearly done, just two triangles, the cubby hole and ceiling to sort, with a bit of plumbing and electrics then we have somewhere to use the washing machine.  MG won't need to clear her decks for me to take the laundry over there and do it, or more often, nick the dirties while I'm pretending not to look then bring them back clean and dry.

Next week I'm off work and so is dad...just think what we may get done (run out of money maybe?  Hope not)

Fast forward late september

MG got some USA spec wasp eradicator at the Stanhope Show wher George was showing his donkey.  (no wonder progress is slowing).  It nearly did the trick, but some survived and multiplied.  They were still dropping out of the light fittings and the window edges where the double glazed units need tidying up.  Three sprays later we were getting about 5 a day on two window sills.

We've got the main bedroom done now.  Plastered, painted, sockets in, light moved, skirting boards on etc.  The bed is in and we're sleeping upstairs. The IKEA student wardrobe is still in the sitting room, but hey, one step at a time.

Fast Forward to late July

MG too busy with chickens to get the photos uploaded til now, and festivals and visiting and stuff.

We got the sitting room finished with TV on the wall and moved in properly at the end of July.  We had the bed and settee in there, with scraps of carpet in the hall and bare wood on the stairs.

Then the wasps came.There were a lot of them.  More every day, everywhere.