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I’ve missed out a stage here because work is ahead of schedule, hurrah! At the end of the working day yesterday, heavy duty fleece was laid and weighed down with my bins and anything else available. It was very windy and rained later. This morning we had a delivery of ‘number one rocks’, which were spread around and tamped down. The first photo ( Read more... )

Exciting stuff. Before eight this morning a huge lorry arrived, blocking the whole road, and the grabber took away yesterday’s spoil heap.


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Dark and wet this morning but there were still plenty of sellers. I bought rather a lot. For example


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... to boast about my new dresser and the fun I'd have loading it up and then not to show anybody. ( So here it is )

A horrible day yesterday becaue I was very let down by the carpet fitter. Luckily for me the builders didn't want me to be left in chaos, so they came round quite late and brought ( ta-da! )

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The dining room has been out of use for over a week and will remain so for a while. The sitting room is half full of boxes. Sigh. It's not that it's such a big job, just that it takes a man here, a man there; never one concentrated burst of activity. This morning I went to inspect the painting of the dresser I wrote about here. This is what the top ( Read more... )

Temperature in Dorset 15°, humidity 89%. Thrilling Test Match. Proms start tonight. RIAT weekend. Pouring with rain most of the day. It must be high summer.

I’ve spent the afternoon driving around between my builders’ units and it looks as though the solution to my storage problems could be ( this )