Let there be light! Yes, final windows added to the side facing the village hall, and they look terrific both from outside and in. And it makes it such a light bright room.

And here we see Mike plastering away. Loads of plastering to be done but we're trundling on with it. Our old bedroom finished, bits of the downstairs done and working away on the new room. Of course I have to mix the plaster! Not so bad when we use a whisk on the end of a drill, but last week that broke so it was all hand stirring and I'm ashamed to say I really suffered. Cogley hips don't like too much disruption! But new drill now in place.

Still waiting for larch so we can do the outside lap-boarding, then outside will be finished pretty well. And once final plastering is done downstairs, the actual stairs can be thought about.

And so it goes on

Not much news on the extension at the moment. We're working away trying to get our old bedroom back into use as I'm fed up with the chaos of everything piled into the spare room. But lots of plastering required, stripping wall paper etc. Managed to buy a selection of decorating materials in our favourite shop in the Gallowgate - it's brilliant! I wanted browns and huge patterns, as seems to be all the vogue. So we've ended with cream and red with virtually no pattern at all. It follows.

Still waiting for the wood for the outside lap-boarding.

And today Mike is spending hours fitting a tiny ceramic 'thing' into the wall in the new room. It was his birthdy present from a wonderful gallery in Ambleside and is a sort of box with a light in the back. You'll have to see it!