On to the walls...

So we reach another Friday and I've a relatively large number of pictures to go through so let's see how long this gets.

Xena decides to sit on top of Louise

I'll start with Louise, who was comfortably asleep a few minute prior to this picture, being sat on by Xena who has no concept of personal space. I did move her after taking the picture. Poor Louise.

A load of sand delivered for Rosie

Halil removing the old wooden supports

Bekir fits a double socket on the wall

Halil manually carrying sand to the landing

A dry mix of sand and lime

First thing this morning we had a sand delivery which I was able to pay for, and also the previous delivery that we'd never paid for apparently, so that's good. One less debt. Bekir and Halil were straight up onto the stairs getting a few bits of clearing up, like removing the old wooden supports for the old consumer unit, and Bekir also fitted the double plug on the wall. Then Halil got started with many trips with two buckets carrying sand and lime up to the landing where they then did the dry mix which took some time as the lime is now quite old and lumpy.

Water used to wash down the walls

Mixing together to get ready for mortaring

Bekir starts throwing mud

There really was a lot of dust and loose rubble on these old walls so they brought the hose up and washed down the walls and floor which made quite a mess, but was a necessary step. After that it was more water as they worked together to mix the sand and lime into an applicable state and then the big moment as the first of the mud was thrown at the wall. This is great, it's been ten years since we started on the new roof and finally we're able to finish off and tidy up this part of the building.

The side gate is very overgrown

A whole lot of weeding done

Getting stuck in down here as well

Cleared about half of this area of the garden

After my very a very busy day at my desk I headed into the garden to blow the cobwebs and get something done, focusing on weeding first by the side gate, which was dramatically overgrown and took some clearing, and then down to the front garden by the old path where I pulled up loads of sticky weeds and other nastiness and got about half of it done before I absolutely had to head inside to start cooking my dinner.

A good solid meal

Talking of dinner I cooked pie, chips, onion rings and breaded mushrooms and it was very tasty indeed, and much needed after my long day.

In other news the key arrived for the roof box, which is a relief, so this weekend I can get that onto Maisie. Anyway, thanks for reading and I'll be back on Monday.