Jubilee weekend: keep calm and carry on painting

Another 4 day weekend of painting, pointing, tiling, decking, shopping, cutting, thinking, deciding...

Not so exciting, but we're making progress! Here are some photos:

painting our new bedroom and hallway...

Greg's bench

My section of the bench

Greg building a confessional

our new restored fireplace - we dug her out, plastered, did the brickwork and tiled her!

Me sorting the deck

Free compost!!

10 days. 1 dream.

Witness the 10 day transformation of our pub garden into a multi level, engineer-approved, hedge-lined, multi-functional, very wooden garden!
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and a bonus shot...

Just call him Craig

Just call him Craig


More imported labour with a thing for Crocs footwear..
Craig flew over from Sydney last week and was given an air mattress, some of Greg's old clothes and 10days to landscape our "pub garden" (despite no real previous experience).
























Introducing Craig Covich
Quote: "No wine thanks, I'm on the job". 
Hobbies: cutting corners and going to Wickes to buy screws. 


Over the last 10 days we saw 3 things happen: 


1. Not wanting to bunk with Craig, Mr Nicholas completed his new room - "the dungeon". 

 


2. Craig revolutionised our garden
More on this in the next blog (it deserves its own post)...

3. And we all learnt some new skills

 

Along came Mr. Nicholas

Our expert builder has arrived! 

He drove all the way from Brittany with a van full of tools and a pair of crocs, rearing with excitement to do some plastering and go for a £3 big breakfast every morning.   
  
Father and son have been working hard, and have managed to make our spare room look a little more like an actual room. They've been very productive despite a schedule revolving around them telling each other off, laughing their heads off, having a break, telling each other off again, another break, thinking, then telling each other off again. 

Introducing Mr Michael Nicholas
Quote: "Plastering is the one thing you can do intoxicated"
Hobbies: likes to unwind reading model magazines 

Meanwhile I've become my mum, cleanin' and bunging things into the oven to keep the workers happy. 




(I've cooked fancy meals too but desserts are more photogenic)