Well, we've now got Rob's picture hanging in the perfect place so that's very exciting.  If you look hard you can see a wee yacht on the rhs sailing off to the west .  Carpet gets laid today, balcony wires are nearly up, so apart from the bathroom and a bit of furniture, the place is finished.  Last picture may be the blog end - and about time too!  And then for the party.

We really are getting to the end of the road now;  Mike has been lining the roof of the porch - a tricky upside down job causing a lot of cursing and swearing - then we need wee triangular windows above and a couple of lights, and that's about it.  Carpet was supposed to arrive last Saturday!  so one day perhaps.

Exciting news was that Rob arrived with the new picture on Tuesday - no you can't see it till it's hung but it really is perfect and fits the space beautifully.  A present from Ju which makes it very special.

Once we are ensconced here with a little more furniture, the only thing to be done -only? - is to fit the new bathroom.

Balcony wire has arrived but that will be a very exacting job;  now we have got the hang of the telescope we are enjoying peering at passing ships, but it never seems clear enough to brush up our astronomical skills, and now it's light at night we may have missed the window until later in the year.

 

Well, this lovely spell of weather is perfect for slating the roof and Mike (now recovered from flu, throat, cold and general feebleness) is out there every morning.  Ages ago we bought a wonderful supply of slates from a man in Clachan who was going to build a house and then decided not to.  Huge, flat, and all the same size means he is whizzing along and it all looks terribly posh.  What's more it's a fairly flat slope so requires no scaffolding , and no Patricia to heave the slates up.

On the new room, just a bit of roof panelling to complete and we're there (apart from the bathroom).  Chose a lovely carpet last week from Mr Lafferty, the travelling carpet fitter.  Yes, you've guessed - it's been discontinued.  So back to the books.

Rob has nearly finished my new picture -  he's having to make slight amendments to it as I'm being a bit pernickity - but we're dying to see it.