Well, the weather seems to be improving a little.... we had two days without rain... and now some days when it stops sometimes... I suppose you could say showers but the showers are still longer than the breaks... but we are seeing the odd sunny periods too... never mind soon be summer... then we'll be asking for rain !!!
The spare bedroom is moving along nicely, the blocks are in, and Rik is now building pillars to take the weight of the lovely balcony that room is having, he's having to repair some of the stone wall under there too as we have a bit of erosion, he assures me it nothing to worry about so I wont.... Hopefully he'll get time today to put the door on the downstairs adega, which leads off my kitchen, that will stop so many drafts...
Rik worked a day for some friends yesterday so we managed a few euros shopping today... I spent 11 euros!!! wow, not bad eh... Im also trying to persuade Rik to splash out on another low energy bulb for the dining area... but an equivelent 100watt one as the others are just too dim...
We are living downstairs at the mo as the range is alight all the time for cooking and it means we save dry wood in not lighting Bertha upstairs ... just means the bedroom is freezing....
Dry wood is a bit of a bugger at the mo, Im drying logs in the oven before we can burn them... luckily that oven is so efficent on a good day I can get ahead and am slowly building a little store of dry stuff now....
More soon.
Pat
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