Let there be light...

Set my alarm for 6am, woke at 5.45am.  Mmph!  I could have been doing with that extra 15 minutes.  Still it meant I was up and ready for the builders arriving at 8am.  David and Alan were still out for the count.  Lucky them on such a windy, wet, miserable morning.  I think the workmen are glad they are working indoors now.

Heard Alan coughing like mad just after 9am.  David appeared looking really rough after a night of coughing and I suggested they both should both get checked for chest infections.  They saw the Doc at midday (we have a great system at our health centre where the doctor will speak to you on the phone before 11am and decide if you need to be seen.) David's chest was ok (just man-flu then) but he's prescribed an antibiotic for Alan.

Despite that, Alan's been on great form for the rest of the day and went out to Stirling this afternoon with Ed.

The work in the kitchen is moving forward at speed.  Today one of the main achievements was getting the Velux window in the kitchen.  I was relieved to see this has brought back a lot of the light we lost when the garden room was built and suddenly the kitchen window was looking into an internal room.

After a lot of head scratching today, it seems a solution has been found to the problem re. the new door opening into the kitchen from the hall.  That should be getting knocked through tomorrow and will be very messy as what they thought was a thermalite brick wall, turns out to be solid.  Johnny, the thoughtful and ever lovely foreman has come up with a way to reduce the mess and is going to box in the area from the hall side and work entirely from the kitchen side.  He is so sweet.

I've included a shot in extras that was taken from roughly the same position as Sunday's blip.   The wall with the blue tiles is completely gone now and the Aga (it's under the dust sheet) will be relocated to its new position this weekend.  Johnny and one of the young lads will also be working on Saturday to get some small, niggly jobs out of the way so they have a clear start on Monday.  The plasterer will be in next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday so it all has to be done by then.

They've also finished sheeting the walls in the pool room and the garden room.  I've not seen it as there no access from the inside of the house at th moment but D says it looks great.

And now it's time for bed again and another day has done by where I've not had a minute to look at your journals :-(

Hopefully tomorrow (once the monthly progress meeting with the builder, architect and QS is out of the way! :-))

Chin up peeps, almost the weekend.

PS Happy Birthday Simon :)

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