Limping Home

24-25 October 2015

Ladder frames under construction, and fitted up the sides.  We will create meshed, stuffed corners as before to take the bales round these 45 degree angles.

 But Dave had been getting pain in his foot, especially up ladders, and so on Sunday we drove down to the GP in Nidri.  On arrival, the car gushed water from the radiator and promptly died on the high street.  The GP said it was an infection or it was gout, (Dave, not the car), prescribed antibiotics and told Dave to rest.  But I couldn't get him home.  In the end, Laurie from Nisos helped us limp the car round to the garage, and delivered Dave and I home.  Phew!

While Dave rested, I went into Nidri by bicycle to get vital supplies for baling the wall.  More twine, more ring bolts and some large diameter (125mm) pipe for the through-wall vents.  The twine and bolts could go on the bike, but 6 metres of pipe was another matter.  Luckily I ran into Paris who suggested Rowan could deliver the pipes after work.  

 Despite supposedly resting his foot, Dave completed the ladder frames, and fixed in the lower level of vent pipes.

Twenty-sixth October - the inaugural firing up of the stove with the new chimney.  A great success, very warm and snug in the music room.