Travelling On

Thank you both :hello::hello:
I'm just off out into the garden - the wild garlic is flowering, there's much more foliage (hopefully leading to fruit) on the fruit bushes, and even though there's a ton of weeding to be done, the bones of the garden are still there. And the two of the four little raspberry cuttings have rooted {thank you again, apple!). I have the shelves from the old dishwasher over them to prevent the cats digging that area, so I think their roots must be getting beautifully established now happy days.

:hello: Hello lovely online friends :hello:
Sorry about the radio silence - busyness is huge, and the effort of getting the final few bits out of the kitchen was unexpected

I'd started to think I was going to have builder trouble - they said 8, but turned up at 8.45. Actually, I could see their van the whole time - they were having a cuppa together, three of them, which is fair enough on a bank holiday after all! They were lovely, and extremely efficient. I didn't realise they'd need to knock a hole through the kitchen/living room wall to support the steels properly so I had a lot of rejigging there. The brick of the chimney breast/party wall was exposed in short order, I was horrified at the look of it :rotfl:but they seemed to think it was normal, so thats okay. All that demolition work, the steels (two of them) in and immediate plastering work done - and they were out of here by 2.45, astonishing! And wonderful!

I was shattered, of course - I didn't even bother switching on the computer - but at least I slept. Today, it's just been one guy, who looks like a teenager to me but must be mid 20s as he's done not only the demolition of the kitchen but also the first of the electrical work. He's still here, I'm perched on the chair that I use as my bedside table to keep out of the way.

One double cabinet is okay for the shed, but the 2nd was too tightly wedged and had to be destroyed. Luckily, I had a single one also available, it has a glass front but he got it out without any problems. SL, I've not only repurposed that, but some very old grill pans under the stove when it came out, they might be in the garden but I can see me using them for microgreens when everything gets sorted