Friday and Cat is off for 4 days, so we have quite a list of things we want to achieve this weekend. I pick up where I left off in the study, scrubbing the plaster and orange dust from the stone wall. The old fireplace looks fabulous now it has been cleaned (again). The stone… Continue reading A very sweary day…
Category: Study
Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
My task this week is to clean the plaster and orange dust from the timbers and stone in the study, ready for Cat and Colin to paint this room at the weekend. These are the tools for removing the plaster from the timbers, a chisel and a small wire brush the same size as a… Continue reading Cleaning the house with a toothbrush
Green or blue?
Cat only has one day off work this weekend so we need to make it count. I have spent the week prepping the sitting room so it is ready for her to paint and this morning I finished off the last bits while Cat had a sort of lie in and walked Jasper. The sitting… Continue reading Green or blue?
Claypaints
More difficult decisions (for us)! We are using the bottom colour for the sitting room and, as we love the top colour and really want to use it, we are going to use this in the study. My reticence is that the study is lovely and light and bright at the moment and, as this… Continue reading Claypaints
Archaeology
Another super cold snow day, so I waste some time sorting through our garden finds. It’s amazing how much of the pottery goes together, I even pieced some bits together like a jigsaw. Much of this was found near the house and under the study window. Apparently when things got broken they were literally thrown… Continue reading Archaeology
Second fix electric
We are both so incredibly tired and quite frankly sick of all things house and just want to fly away to somewhere tropical, but sadly for a variety of reasons that isn’t going to happen. Cat is struggling to keep her spirits up working in the house alone and I am pretty pissed off that… Continue reading Second fix electric
The heat is on
Disappointingly the addition of the dehumidifier and the fan made very little difference to the condensation levels on the windows this morning. I am still mopping up pools of water on the sills and as soon as I dry the windows they are steaming up again… We need to get more heat in the house.… Continue reading The heat is on
Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
Saturday and Cat is back from Bristol but we are so knackered and utterly fed up with the house that we decide to have a day off house stuff. With so much yet to do and a huge clean up process to begin, we simply don’t know where to start. It is so overwhelming that… Continue reading Warming up, cleaning up and drying up
Glorious, despite the mud
What a glorious day! It was cold but dry and the sun shone all day, perfect as we needed the sun to dry the lime pointing out, it is taking much longer to go off than it should as everything is so wet… Tom and George knocking back the pointing they added yesterday around the… Continue reading Glorious, despite the mud
Sublime!
It was a day of lime plastering with the top coat being finished in the study and being added in Zanna’s bedroom, while a second coat is being added to the landing and stairs. Our freshly repaired old front door looking resplendent with a coat of oil. Mitch and Alan starting on the stairs and… Continue reading Sublime!