In the Nick of Time

Weds 27 November 2013

Today we could feel the change in temperature.  It's cold.  You can see your breath in the air.  Not good when living in a field.  So, the final push to finish the bedroom ...

 The sun came out - always welcome, especially with a rainbow (the pot of gold is our house!) but with the cloud cover gone, it's cold.  Snow visible on the mainland mountains.

 Yesterday I finished the partition framework - waiting for plywood from Lefkas.  Rowan has agreed to make us doors - the main door and little doors for this cupboard, should be ready around the weekend.

 Dave got several panels plastered on Tuesday, after I'd skived off to art.  The triangles and the letterbox shape below have been left for electric sockets and heating pipes to be fitted in due course

 By lunchtime wednesday - with both of us plastering all morning, Dave finished the final corner - super double hurrah!  For the record, my panels are the triangles around the window and the parallelogram by Dave's waist

 

 And without loss of time, we moved in the bed, the sofa and the heater, and hung bedspreads over the door space.  The plaster is still wet, but it won't dry at low temperatures, and we can't spare the heater, so we put all the furniture about a foot in from the walls and huddled around the fire in our bed robes.  In the night, one of the cats crept in and climbed over Dave's head, waking him suddenly - he flung it away, and we now have paw prints in the plaster on that side.

But otherwise, we had a very warm and snug night under our mountain of bedclothes, and much quieter than we're used to.