Missed yesterday with a headache.

Yesterday I completely forgot that I was supposed to do this update as I went to bed so early with a horrible headache. Oh well, just makes today's update a little longer. Let's cover the weekend first.

Dippy Duck Eggs for breakfast!

My favourite starter at the Italian restaurant

Louise enjoys my bivvy

Getting the tent sorted

Rosie's new toy

Saturday was a day of food and travelling at first; I had dippy duck eggs for breakfast, which was great, and then drove Maisie up to Jumbo to give her a work out and pick up some things I wanted and needed which was a great success. On the way back I stopped at the Italian restaurant for lunch which was excellent as always and then my drive home was good, though I was tired when it was done. I did not stop, however, as I pulled the bivvy out and pitched it out just to check everything was still OK, which it was. Louise particularly appreciated the soft bedding I've bought. While at Jumbo I picked up a few things, one of which were these two bags that are perfect for the additional stuff that came with the huge tent. Now I just need the trailer and we're set. I also bought a basketball hoop for Rosie (the reason I went) which I assembled. She's going to love that!

The bricks are tidied so now I can cut the grass here

This area was getting very overgrown

The birds are loving the grass cuttings

All neat and tidy right down to the gate

Maisie has a bars on now

Everything fits fine, with space to spare

Sunday I was out relatively early with the new push along mower taking down all the areas I hadn't been able to do with the ride-on before it rained last time. I also tidied up a load of bricks that had fallen onto the grass and was able to cut all along the front of the Green Building with no problem. I had the idea of giving the grass cuttings to the chickens and ducks and they were loving it so I continued this for all my grass cuttings. This session I managed to get all the way down to the gate done and it was looking a whole lot better. I didn't stop there, however, as next I put the roof bars on Maisie and then went to try and fit the roof box only to find that we had no keys for it! I'm sure we used to have more than one key however I could not find the spare, and the other one had headed off on holiday with Angela. This one is now with a courier being brought back! I practiced packing anyway, just into the boot, and fitted pretty much everything in so that makes me happier.

Bekir is fine with these beams

Halil is less happy to put his weight on them

They got some new boards to use

Bekir working the other side, on the old beams

Halil much happier now with the new beams

The grass is all cut and tidy now

Working away together upstairs

Filling gaps carefully

The men were in yesterday (and so I should, as I say, have done this update then but never mind) and they were back into the roof doing the plastering of the ceiling above the stairs. Halil was very unhappy about the old beams that Bekir was using for the scaffold so they ordered and then collected two large new wooden planks, after which he was happy to stand on them. I headed out during the afternoon on the ride-on and mowed the two front lawns that were starting to get a bit shaggy; about half an hour after I finished it rained so that was perfect timing. The men made some pretty awesome progress upstairs with before they headed off and then I had some food then took myself to a very early night to try and recover for today.

Xena sat on my shoulder

Halil plastering more of the ceiling

Bekir working on the wiring

Yet more plastering being done

Wiring up a new distribution box for the guest suite

I did sleep through however still woke feeling very groggy and shaky first thing; Xena was up on my shoulder checking I was ok which was nice, and thankfully I've recovered a lot through the day. The men were in again and this time split their tasks. Halil continued with the plastering while Bekir began the process of moving the electrics from where the current distribution box is on the stairs over to the new one in the crawl space. This is required so they can then finish and plaster the walls on the stairs. This is something I've been waiting for them to do for a long time so I'm pretty excited indeed!

So there it is; thanks for reading and back tomorrow.