Peter covers over the hole in the floor with mdf and sheets of masonite, and with a rug from the market over the top, the living room looks reasonably habitable.
We are giving up a storage area we've rented for years, and shelves from it are relocated in the second bedroom, giving us a place for the assorted tools that are living in there at present.We acquire a single bed mattress, which will one day have a bed to go with it in the second bedroom.
After weeks of wet and windy weather, the old climbing rose blows down from the wall. We decide to seize the opportunity to render the newly-straightened wall. Our builders give us the contact for the guys who did the rendering of our renovation, and they are due tomorrow to do the wall. The rose has been cut right back to a mere three old stems, but I'm sure it will grow again. It was overdue for pruning, but it was so high up the wall it was almost impossible to do. So much easier with it lying on the ground!
Renderers come, and render, returning a few days later to do the top coat. Wall looks great, and the rose will be re-attached.
