A Little Piece of Christmas

I need some Christmas at home, I decided this weekend! Despite the building rubbish everywhere and the hectic week in the shop, I picked up the Hoover and attacked the mess that seemed to cover the whole house in a fine film. I could draw some quite interesting patterns with the Hoover in the dust! So, I managed to salvage one room so we can have some sort of Christmas Day. The children don't seem to mind, to them it's all a great adventure.

A Little Bit of Christmas

The building work this week has been rather stop start with the heavy rain and showers making working on the roof difficult. The builders have continued to strip and save the tiles, carefully stacking them on the scaffold. I took a trip to see the old roof first hand and it's quite amazing to still see the old lath and lime mortar plaster, bound with hair, on the ceilings beneath.

Lime Mortar and Lath Ceiling

Of course there was no insulation between the tile and the ceiling and that doesn't give us much space to add any in. I think in the long run we will have to take some of these ceilings down to adjust the height and also because the roofer have put their feet through it in a few places!

The view from the top of the scaffolding across the farmyard helps to put the farmhouse in perspective as it is the heart of this ancient site.

The Old 17th century Barn and Walled Yard

This week will see the building work winding up before Christmas. We will hopefully have a sample window to look at and we will have to plan just how far we strip this house back.....oh yes, and we have to do that little job of moving out.....! Joy!