Making progress

The day dawned clear and bright again (we have been so lucky with the weather so far this month) and I took this shot looking left out of our house this morning, just as the sun was making its appearance over the hill. At this time of year, we have sun on the house from about 09.00 until 18.30 hrs - lovely!

But then it was back to the renovation work. Today has been 'insulation' day. After a bit more cleaning up (including scraping more of that god-awful foam filler off the beams - it's everywhere!), we finally set to with the lovely new high-tech aluminium 'isolation mince'. It took us the best part of the day to get the bottom half of both sides done and wow, what an improvement already. Quantity-wise, it's going to be tight as we may have under-ordered, but we have had just about zero waste so far, so fingers crossed we will be able to get it all completed tomorrow and then we will have the plasterboard to look forward to ;-) Oh yes, we are so looking forward to that. But Trudi and Julian, Steve and Jackie, don't panic, it should all be done before you visit us (Penny crosses her fingers!) and should be rather nice.

Not much else to report today other than to say that the butcher is open again (hurrah!) after their 2 week holiday and the dog was very very grateful for his 'déchets' (offcuts) this evening! As for us, we had a scrummy omelette with the wonderfully fresh free range eggs that we get locally.

Then I took this piccy of the sunset over the mountains before retreating back inside for a glass (or two) of rather nice Gaillac red!
We finished working on the attic late so we had a very simple but very tasty omelette for tea tonight