Rubbish Start

It has been good with Guy here to help me. We have been 'attacking' the huge pile of rubbish behind the ruin. It consists mainly of many years worth of old wine bottles, rusty tin cans, brittle plastic water bottles and old roof tiles and bricks.

We want to be able to put down pallets in the area behind the ruin so that we can stack all of the large pieces of stone that we have around the house and garden. We want to save them for when we rebuild walls and also ( a long way in the future ) when we rebuild the ruin. Putting them behind the ruin will help to tidy up the courtyard in particular.

I have spent most of today preparing some sketches of the alterations we wish to make to the outside of the house. They are basically changing some large doors into windows, enlarging windows, changing a window into a door, and putting 'velux' windows in the roof. I am taking the sketches back to the maire tomorrow when he is supposed to give me a form to fill in, if he can find it! But we are still not sure what sort of permission we are going to need. Hope we might find out tomorrow.