Covering a long time

 This update covers the previous two weeks, but I'm going to try and keep it short and sweet.

Angela and Rosie head off to Ireland

Tools all tidy at last

Bekir on the roof across the village

Moving terrain into the corridor

Running network cable around Room 13

Angela and Rosie headed off to Ireland to see her nana, going for a long time so they could quarantine and still get the chance to get out for the visit. It was very sad waving them off and they return on Wednesday and I cannot wait! While they have been gone the men have been working on a house in the village fixing the roof and only actually returned on Friday. I have been really busy with the paid job but got a few chores around the house done like hanging all the gardening equipment on the wall in the garden storage room, which looks great, and I also emptied out the Games Room in preparation for  Bekir to knock the hole through for my model railway. I have also run the network cables around the house for internet, though I'll come to some more detail on that in a short while.

The sun breaks above the fog

Still have butterflies

A glorious sunrise

Middle of October temperature

Sunbathing puppies

Fire had to be lit though

It has been changeable, weather-wise. We've had some absolutely glorious days, and some stinking cold miserable days. Mainly nice, thankfully, however the mornings even on those nice days are getting colder and colder and so finally the fire had to be lit; the puppies were very pleased and I'm doing OK at keeping Room 13, which I managed to move back into just in time before the first really cold damp morning, warm and comfortable for us all.

Bekir after the drilling incident

Sally getting the finishing off started

A route for the network

Power for the kitchen, waiting to be fixed

Networking through the roof

On Friday I asked the men to come in mainly because the hole for the networking into the library just wasn't large enough. There were other little jobs to be done as well like finishing around the window there. Unfortunately Bekir drilled through the main armoured cable the fed the kitchen, by mistake of course, and so what should have been a really quick job for him became a digging-out-and-replacing-cables monster task. He got it done, and also sorted out some other badly-run cables at the same time, as well as putting in all the pipes that I wanted so I could run the cables on Saturday. Which I did, though it took me nearly all day to get everything done. Bekir and I got to town to get steel for the balcony, so the windows can be measured, and also tried to find tools and other items to fit the carpet with but failed so that is now on its way from the UK and we won't have carpet for at least two weeks still.

Morning sun through the tea trees

The pans are now hung

Such a lovely hot day

Evening sun

Sunday was a beautiful day; I got my shopping done and when I got back put the hooks up in the kitchen to hang our frying pans from; this was a surprisingly difficult job as that beam is REALLY hard. After that I rested and hobbied and did a few other bits and pieces but I also got to sit outside which was lovely; I've not been outside very much the past couple of weeks. The sun in the evening on the hills was lovely, as was my roast dinner.

Measuring, though they didn't cut there

Welding the beam back together

Sally puts a second coat of plaster on

Bekir and Halil fit the beam in place

Another casualty; easily fixed though

And the tile on the inside window as well

A very messy floor, but a clean repaired wall

Sally covers over the pipes again

And so we reach today. The men were back in and the first job was to put the steel up on the balcony that will have the windows attached to it; this was a good job that they spent the morning doing and, other than trimming it too short which I caught and pointed out just before they started fitting it, they did a great job and it is very secure. While Bekir and Halil continued with this Sally came into the library to put a second coat of plaster around the window and door. There had been another breakage of tiles on the balcony as well so Bekir fixed this then took the glue and fitted the tile on the inside windowledge in the library. Upstairs Sally and Halil had some cement and were fixing the walls; Halil made a huge mess and had to then spend ages clearing up; I'll suggest he puts cardboard down like Sally did tomorrow.

And so finally I've finished what wasn't a short and sweet update, but an epic! It's been so lonely and weird without Angela and Rosie here; I've seen them on Skype every day pretty much which has really helped but tomorrow being the last full day before they get back is a Very Good Thing in my book. I cannot wait. Thanks for reading, though!