Easter

Well, we've spent the day pootling around the site. Replenished the bird feeders, weeded a few weeds, sat in the sun and read for a bit. 

We continue to be optimistic regarding moving in this Autumn, so a sunny day in April was a good time to discover, or imagine, where to sit to take advantage of it. As I said to wifey, we're not short of corners.

Lyn has been working hard this week on preparation for re-pointing the chapel walls, using a hammer drill to scrape out old rotten mortar. It's no small task and she's had aches and pains in places she didn't know she had places. Lots of this:

..so much, in fact, that this was almost inevitable..

Just to put this into context, here's just one of the walls to be pointed, inside and out:

While there's scaffolding at the front of the east wall, I got a couple of aerial shots of the front garden:

The South wall has now been capped and should last another hundred years or so:

In the near future: the concrete slab for the house will be poured; the new steel will be properly fixed to the wall it's supposed to hold up; the old steel will be removed.

All in all we're very happy with progress. 

More later.