Getting near the end with the chippys.
This was taken at 16:02 on Thursday 31st August 2006. The Hall is finished, the floor is down,
the doors are fitted, the surrounds around the doors are fitted, (very fiddly work), and the coir mat fitted.
They have also installed all the skirting board downstairs, it is small, you can just see it.
They still have to install the skirting and doors upstairs, but before that the stairs have to be installed.
Meanwhile Margie is quite delighted with the condition of the soil where she planted potatoes.
She is harvesting them now, it is a really good crop. Here she holds in her right hand a potatoe top,
and in her left a ground elder plant. It has very long roots, a lot of work to rid us of it.
Again meanwhile, I am making a lawn around the summer house.
Creating a lawn in a building site means a lot of work.
The ground has to be levelled, rubble and half bricks removed, ground redug, raked level, clods of clay removed,
ground trod down all over, re-raked, re-levelled. All the while builder's debris removed.
Builders just do not understand gardeners.
But here the site is levelled, raked, seeded, and I am covering the seeds with a dusting of soil.
This is Sunday 3rd September, we have just returned from a very wet weekend in the Lake District.
Margie never got to do some sailing on Derwent Water, but I did get to buy a new waterproof jacket,
after getting wet on a 4 hour walk on Saturday. We got back today early, more rain in the Lakes,
so I started to sort out things for tommorrow when John & Tony install the stairs.
Here are the bits and pieces of the stairs apart from the staircase.