We haven’t been idle this last week; though the temperature has dropped and the nights have been cold, the days have mostly been lovely. So, apart from fitting the new woodburner, which seems to work really well, we’ve been getting on with the garage. The doors and fascia boards are all lasured and weather-proof, the guttering is up and runs into a water butt and, the big job this week, the new concrete floor is complete. There are even four rings cemented into the floor so that motorbikes can be parked securely, especially for you, Peter Short, if you’re reading this. 😉

Nick and Kieran have spent hours mixing and laying the new floor and had just finished the ramp outside the doors today, when the heavens opened . They collected up a heap of old doors, destined for a bonfire, to protect the wet concrete from the rain, so it should be OK. All that remains to be done now is to fill in the gap above the doors, probably with colombage, and to crepi the outsides.

The rest of the afternoon was spent indoors, digging the floor up in the grange and making a huge pile of mud. We had hoped there might be some decent soil there, but sadly, mud is a better description.

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