Yesterday we went to help our friend, Adrian, lay a new floor in his grange. The lads finished levelling the subfloor, and did other technical, boy jobs, while I got on with the important work of making lunch. We’d almost finished eating when a dark shadow blotted out the sun from the window; the cement lorry had arrived! It was all hands on deck to spread the concrete as evenly as possible between the bits of wood (shuttering, for anyone technical out there), that they’d put down. I think they all really enjoyed paddling about in the liquid concrete; Ade did say he’d never been allowed to play mud pies as a child. Made up for lost time yesterday, though! By the time we left it looked great.

This morning, we woke to a frost! It soon burnt off, but it’s soon going to be time to start lighting fires. It did, however, remind Kieran that they hadn’t cemented around the window in his bedroom when they replaced it, so there was a half inch gap down one side. Rather negates the point of double glazed windows, really! It’s now cemented up and he should be warmer tonight.

Nick call Flagstaff metal roofing contractors and with them went up on the roof today to repair the seal around the chimney, which allows rain to pour fairly steadily down the inside, onto the stove in the kitchen (no wonder it’s so badly rusted). Another little job out of the way before winter sets in.

I finished the first coat of emulsion in the orange bedroom, but had to spend most of the morning planning for today’s English class; numbers, times, days, months, etc. I don’t know if any of them will come back after half term, they found today so hard!