Sorry it's been a few days since the last post - left you hanging over the windows saga... well when we returned home they were all installed successfully.

It's hard to say what has moved on on the rest of the build, it doesn't feel like things are moving on. The build is now 3 months behind and it is easy to loose faith that the builders will ever leave. Latest end date is 15th Dec, we'll see....

They have started taking down the back walls downstairs...


Which is progress, except that the back bedroom door wont close now, so more drama!

M& I have been getting on with the finishing off of the bathroom, now that the new window is in..

Quite a morning... earlier this week the builder asked us to line up the windows people to get them back to fit the doors... now the doors can't be fitted with the scafold in the way (they open outwards) and the doors have to be in before the rendering is done or internal walls are removed, but the scaffolding is needed for the rendering to be done....are you with me so far? Well the compromise was that the builder was going to get the scaffolding moved until the doors went in, so a day was agreed (that day is today) and the windows chaps called in...except they arrive to find that the scaffolding hasn't been moved and there isn't a plan to move it!! Dave the head builder asked his guys to do it, but the fact that it was rather difficult so they didn't think they would, was not quite communicated back.

Anyway, the house this morning was filled with 7 people walking backwards and forwards talking in adjatated fasion on mobile phones...but we now have a sollution which if I'm not mistaken involves one of the builders moving and replacing various bits of scaffolding in a balletic and magical style. We have to head back early today to see everybody before they leave and so find out whether it all went to plan...

Had windows chaps back yesterday, who got all the remaining windows put in, just the doors at the back of the house to go...

The roof structure is in place and has a covering on it, there are even some tiles going on at the front as shown in this picture...honest...!













Hopefully the windows chaps will be back today or tommorrow, and we even had Rob back for one morning to put in the threshold bricks for the back doors. And one final piece of good fortune - we have lots of lovely left over waste wood from the roof, that will help keep us cosy warm at night...

We now have pretty much the full roof structure in place....

Sad to say that Rob seems to have been moved off the job, so we have been a little ill informed for the past couple of days, but it all looks like good progress. It was a frosty morning when I popped out today to take these pictures, so I also took one of the greenhouse and paths looking neat and rather fetching in the frosty air...

The first hip of the main roof was completed yesterday...

Hip - Hip - Horay!