Nick and Kieran have come back from their respective weeks away filled with new enthusiasm and energy and are working like men possessed. They’ve finished installing the first, thin layer of insulation in the roof, put up the support rails and have started putting in the thick insulation and plasterboards.

The scaffolding they’re working from now has at least two layers of planks on it, at 90º to each other, after a plank snapped under Nick yesterday, depositing him unceremoniously on the floor. Fortunately he suffered no more than scrapes and bruises.

Graham kindly took time out today to give me a lesson in using photoshop, hence the panoramic shot of the upstairs of the house. The beams and rails aren’t really bendy!