A quick update

[Suff]

Thanks Kaz, Jo.

We have a large workshop on the ground floor which runs down part of the courtyards and garden. Over the top of them we have a small sitting room, off the new bedroom, a home office, my office and Mrs S' sewing room.

So Mrs S has a sewing room, an office in which she has a desk for doing her dolls house I bought her about 7 years ago and she has a jigsaw room. Later this year or next year I will be evicted from my office and out to the two "cottages", in the second courtyard. They are more outbuildings but they are fully accommodation capable apart from drainage/sewage.

So then Mrs S will have a double sewing room, a home office and a jigsaw room. I, on the other hand, will be evicted to the garden... Although the office will, on second attempt, be better. Also larger.

The dogs will be allowed to visit in the summer too. Right now they're not allowed in my area of the house and one of ours loves to get on my seat, hit the keyboard and wait for the monitors to light up. She does it at the vets too.

I took most of Friday off to do as much as I could before I took the ferry on Saturday. So the door to Mrs S' dressing room is in and over half of the bedroom is studded and plasterboarded, insulated on the outside walls.

I won't be back for a month. So the guy we have working for us will continue to finish it out. Key was getting the wires in for switches and lights before closing the wall. I had to drill through a clear 3 feet of flooring, dead space and a solid oak beam to get the cables down into the garage. The last part being a terracotta brick layer. Just as well I have 1m masonry drills...

[Suff]

Progress continues on the bedroom. No photo's at this time, I'll do some more when it is done.

Mrs S' dressing room is now done, the walls in the main bedroom are done as is the ceiling. My dressing room door is in but the inside has to be completed and fitted out with the Ikea units we bought for it, wired and power set up.

The door into the little sitting room goes in today and then the walls there will be plastered back in again. We took out sliding doors and put in a window, the access to the balcony will be from our bedroom.

When I get back (mid May), we'll work on finishing flooring, radiators and my dressing room. We go to Canada again on Holiday in mid June and I may be home for a week after before heading back to the UK again. So not too much time to get stuff done.

As the last room to be done in both houses that will be a big milestone.

[Kaz]

Very nice