Rich on a Roll

Yesterday was the first day since moving into our cottage two and half years ago that we had a shower! We have managed up till now with baths, which are ok but I'm a shower girl and have been waiting for this moment!

This of course turned into a pig of a job, fighting back as usual, but Rich persevered as ever and finally got it working. I hide upstairs in the studio until the swearing stopped!

And not only a nice new shower but thanks to my Mum for taking pity on us and buying me the Underground Map shower curtain she new I wanted! All of a sudden our bathroom is starting to look quite cool, although lets not get ahead of ourselves, we still have the radiator to fit and the bath panel to make!

Rich is between art jobs at the mo so he's had some time this week which is a rarity, I however keep disappearing off to answer emails and do bits of design work every 5 minuets.

Other jobs he's managed to get done this week include bagging a load of free wood off freecycled, a quick trip to the Bath City grounds to collect it, then an hour chopping it up so it will fit in our little log burner...

...which makes a good start on our winter stock pile (helping to keep the gas bill down!).

He also make a start on replacing the old worn out 70s doors...well actually he opened the door to the cupboard under the stairs and it pretty much fell off! Meaning hes spend the whole afternoon adapting an old 4 panel victorian pine door we got cheap from the Bristol Wood Recycling Project as a replacement.

I'm so pleased with how this looks, can't wait to get the others done, unfortunately none of the frames are square and almost all will require the frames being built out to make the old doors fit. Still the old pine looks way better that the 70s cardboard doors!

So there we are, my boy has been on a bit of a roll this week! I feel like we managed to get quite a bit done (this is of course the royal 'we'... my contribution was making a lot of tea!).