We've moved!

I'm crazy-busy trying to get at least one room habitable [hamstringing myself by flitting between rooms], and haven't got the mental space to do the 'update so far'...

So, today, I'll just say: we have the hearth, I'm waiting for the stove [next Thursday is the installation date], I'm cleaning the sitting room floor & windows (trying to get one area vaguely clean before the herd of cats* female relatives descend next week)...

Right, I'm off to use more Flash!



*It's like herding cats, interacting with that side of the family, so I think of them as a 'herd of cats'!

Still playing catch-up...

I'm wading my way through my notes from the last month, so here is another instalment of progress that's happened at the house:

• Saturday, 17 January: Richard 2 has been.  We've now got a shower tray, base cabinets, and worktops in the utility, and about three-quarters of the tiling has been done.  For the first time, I can "see" myself liking living in this house [as opposed to living in the house until I can make enough changes that it feels bearable (the downside of buying a place for the exterior when the house is a sh!thole, I suppose)].  That felt like an immense breakthrough, and I've felt so much more positive since.  Thank you so much!  He has also connected the loo to the mains, but until Richard 1 has finished his ministrations we are still reliant on our bucket.  Jason fitted the sliding kitchen door into the final position; that's him done for now.  David continued removing wallpaper paste from the sitting room walls, and I started sanding the cornice, and painted behind where the radiators will be in there.