The pressure is on

Spurred on by our imminent holiday and the 'building' start date, we were hard at it all day yesterday. So, in between mowing the grass and moving beams and pallets given to us by our neighbours, I was mixing cement for Sue so that she was able to finish one side of the path behind the box hedge. We also had a quick 'site meeting' with our staircase man, who had heard from our builder Cyrille that we'd changed our minds about the stairs. He arrived on his weekend motorbike ( these old boys are the same in any country) and he and Sue successfully devised a satisfactory solution to her concerns. They also had to alter the idea of having the landings in glass. That was going to cost another £3000. We are still going to have some glass on the 2 landings to allow light on the staircase, but it won't be a complete sheet of glass.

Meanwhile, I managed to fit in putting up the rest of the guttering on the porcherie. Then, the next time I looked round, Sue was painting her rendering!

So, not to be outdone, I laid the 'doorstep' to the porcherie. Unfortunately, I was about 2 trowels-full short of getting the job finished. C'est la vie!

But by then enough was enough. And it was gone 7 o'clock. And we had to water the veg patch. And Sue hadn't started our meal. It's good being retired isn't it.