Day three of tiling the arrière cuisine and I am getting a bit quicker, not that I could be much slower at putting tiles down than I was on day one! It’s taken about 16 hours to get to this stage! I’ve reached the join between the old and new floors now; it’s certainly not seamless! I think Nick may have to put a skim of cement over it since tiles don’t bend that sucessfully.

Tomorrow we can start to clear the tools, tins of paint, shelves, jars of jam, compote and chutney, bottles of wine, etc., etc., through to the other end of the room so that I can continue tiling. But I’m delighted to say that it looks as though I’ll have some help over the weekend; a friend who’s an expert tiler is coming over to give me a hand, so that should speed up the process considerably.