Day off then back to the roof

Yesterday the workmen had other things to do at their own home and so Bekir rang me to say they weren't coming in so it was a day off.

Just a bit of ice in the freezer

I only have one picture from yesterday to share; I went to get some fruit out of our old freezer in the entrance hall and really struggled to open the door and this is why; I actually took the small hand axe to this to clear the ice enough to extract some boxes but this is something that will need to be done properly very soon, and then the freezer should be retired as it is clearly not working well.

Rosie's awesome new outfit

Bekir gets started on the electrics this morning

Grandma starting to wash Betty

Halil mixes up plaster

Corner strengthening stuff

Getting the corner strengthener in place

Plastering going well

Two extra lights looking great

And so to today. This morning Rosie got to wear a new outfit for school which looked very awesome on her indeed. The men were in on time and got stuck in up in the roof with the tasks in front of them. First of all they were completing the shift of the cables to inside the storage area to make it tidier. Grandma wanted to wash Angela's car and so I helped get the pressure washer out and she set to; she's done a great job and it is gleaming and clean! The men headed into the builders merchant just as the car washing began and picked up the materials needed to begin plastering in the storage parts of the roof. Halil was taking the lead on this and he mixed up the plaster and then cut and fitted corner mesh to make the whole thing more secure before getting the plaster applied to the walls. It's very exciting to see this! While this was going on Bekir kept working on the electrics and he fitted the two extra lights we asked and then started to work on the light switch that will eventually control the lights in the big open part of the roof.

Another good session of digging

Monster worm in the leaf mold

Mulch all over the raised beds

Saved spuds to be replanted later

Angela had a busy day in the garden with lots of weeding however I didn't get a picture as I was pretty busy myself. As soon as work was over I went out into the garden with my shovel and dug over the next section of the garden. Next up I shifted some composted leaves from a pile and spread it on the raised beds. While doing that I found a huge worm so that was safely placed back in the leaf litter. While I had been digging over the garden I found loads of potatoes, some of them rotting but quite a lot with roots and starting to grow so I saved them and Angela asked me to put them into a bag for replanting later; always nice to get some free spuds.

So there it is. We've reached Friday so have a good weekend, thanks for reading, and back on Monday.