Getting Cosy

Monday 10 Nov 2014

We didn't do much over the weekend, time to huddle round the stove and have a rest.  But on Monday we got stuck into making our winter quarters a bit more homely.

 Having taken the sofa out of the bedroom we were able to shuffle the furniture around a bit and find rather more space.  I evicted all the dust balls and mopped the floor and it felt like a new room all of a sudden.  The square hole in the internal wall to the right of the bed gives onto the music room, and allows hot air from the stove to filter into the bedroom.  Dave's idea - clever, hey?

 But before we can settle into the music room we want to raise the floor level a bit.  But we also have to lower the floor level in the bathroom-to-be.  It makes sense to shovel the earth from the bathroom into the music room next door - so we did, about a ton of it.  Dave pickaxing and me shoveling and barrowing.

 By lunch we had a leveled out bathroom floor, and had half the music room raised by about 10cm.  Time to bring in the clean gravel: two tons of it shoveled by Dave and barrowed by me, up a plank from outside.  It was starting to get dark when we were raked smooth, with some flattened out cardboard boxes and a few rugs ..

and looking very cosy indeed (at least by our standards).