Quick Update

Just a quick note so that you can keep up to date. I've just created my quilting blog, and that can be found by looking at the section on the right hand side, called My Favourite Links - there is a link to it in there. There is more on the quilting blog than I've included in this one - little fun things. Do take the time to have a look at it. I have a couple of bugs to iron out, such as adding pictures in - for some reason I've been unable to upload photos to the quilting, but I'll get it working to my satisfaction at some point soon.

Anyway - that isn't the only reason for adding to this blog is that more work is being done to the house as I type. The tiles are being taken from the roof - the builder is able to use them on the job that Nathan is working on, so we will have new slates on the roof, and at a subsidised price, because we are selling the old slates to the builder / roofer. The sun is shining here, and it's about time that I took a trip up to the house to check on the post and get some fresh air. It helps me to assess how the shingles is going as well.

Until next time...

Progress

Greetings to you all. I haven't posted for a while, as there hasn't really been much to see, but I've got some good pictures for you now! It's a lovely sunny day here today, and the flat is far too warm - it's 25 degrees in the flat, and much cooler outside. The result of this warmth is that I can't do to much to Caro's quilt as I end up boiling underneath it. At least I know that it will keep her warm and cosy!

This first picture shows the progress at the front of the house. When you look at the house from the left of this picture (by the bakery for those of you who are acquainted with Westward Ho!), the house really looks quite big. Well, actually, it looks like a mansion! It's one thing that helps me to sleep really well at the moment, thinking about the place when it's finished - especially my sewing room.

The picture on the left shows the view that we will have - or the view that I will have from my sewing room! As you may be able to tell, I'm really quite looking forward to having a room where I can sit and sew, and look out on the view. You may be wondering how I got this picture. We took the advantage of the fine weather to have a really good look at the progress further up. Keith and Nathan have already been up on the scaffolding, and so I took the trip up there today. This shows the view from the first floor, so our new lounge will be higher up still. I may just leave taking another photo of the view until I can take it from inside.

The next few photos were also taken up on the roof; Keith and Nathan decided that they had to climb about the place, so I let them - well, I say I let them, but I was issuing warnings and pleading with Keith not to be so daft - did they listen? Of course not, but they got back down the ladder alright, so I can't moan too much. And of course, the antics provide some good photos too.

The building on the far right of this picture is the latest block of flats to be built, and they rather give the impression of a Spanish holiday resort.

The photo on the left was taken through one window of my sewing room, with me looking through the other window.

The photo on the right shows the hardy explorers getting up on the roof. Nathan is quite used to the climbing thing, as he has now been taken on full time by Graham. He's not working on our house, he's working over at East the Water. He was quite happy to get climbing on the scaffolding, and then Keith decided that he also had to do it too. It gave a better idea of the view that we would have from the second floor. I didn't venture that far - climbing the ladder seemed to be quite enough for me, and I didn't really take to the scaffolding wobbling either.

Nathan is quite pleased to be working - he's got his steel toe capped boots, which still look quite clean. He's been to get a few tools as well for the job. Now, as fortune would have it, a hardware and masonry shop has just started up on the corner at the end of the road, just opposite the fishing shop and the corner grocery. It seems to be very fortuitious that a shop of this kind has opened when Nathan is starting work.

Well, that really is about it for now. I'm still a bit under the weather from the shingles - it seems to be the case that some of the spots are lingering / coming back again, with the odd twinge of pain / itching from time to time. At this moment in time I'm thinking of indulging in a little afternoon nap - I find that the heat and sunlight make me sleepy as well. I don't have any problem sleeping at all, just in staying awake !

Watch out for the next installment - I'm planning on starting my patchwork and quilting blog very shortly, and I'll put the link to it on this blog.