The doors get fitted on Friday! Actually, we have advanced rather well. Two bedrooms are now ready and the lounge is ready fro a paint job, thanks to some enlisted help from friends who dropped by for lunch.

The heavy-duty steamer we used to strip the wallpaper tripped the power switch in the house a couple of times, but otherwise everything went swimmingly.

We had a cooker and fridge-freezer delivered and so are now able to eat in the house too. The local electrician popped in and gave the place a tentative thumbs-up. Well, at least, not a categorical thumbs-down. We are unlikely to fry ourselves in the bath, he assures me. It is something else, however, that we shall have to see to at some unspecified future date. He’s also going to fit a new water heater next week, which is jolly nice of him.