The windows have arrived! Aren't they lovely. They are covered in tape and are actually black. Mike had an incredible job getting black ones - McLeods would make them in white and get a wee man in Inverary to paint them black, but we didn't think that was a geat idea. Then we got a quote from some people down south for thousands of pounds. In the end good old Jewson's came up trumps. The triangular ones go on the side wall, them there's a high one on the road side and one under the decking for our old bedroom.

This morning a pretty fraught morning; raining hard and the old familiar leaks springing up, and - having somehow found places to put all our coats, climbing boots , and kites - Mike very loudly demolished all the cupboard area at the end of the living room. Said he'd never been happy with it anyhow. That's where the stairs will be - well we'll need to be able to get up to this wonderful new room somehow and I'm not ready for a Stannah lift.