The decorating begins!

The builders have gone!!  And taken all our money!!

The house is ours again.  Billy, the decorator who has painted all our houses in Norwich at intervals over the last 40 years, has been and stayed for a week at Southwold to paint the kitchen.   It was a great favour to us as Billy has tried to retire for several years but keeps getting enticed back by his old clients.   All the kitchen equipment has now been rescued from various nooks and crannies round the house, washed and  installed in the kitchen and we can cook!  This is our first weekend actually staying at the house since Easter.

Today we have started on the make over of the downstairs loo.  Nothing dramatic, just swapping the yellow paint for white. 

We are trying to clear out the lounge so that a man can come and sand and varnish the floorboards.  He starts on Monday.  In moving some furniture we came across the remnants of an old hearth in the half of the room that no longer has a fire place.  They might just be Georgian or Victorian...so we are cleaning them up so they can be seen as a bit of house history.

Another decorator is booked to come and paint the halls and the living room and we have a date for the kitchen floor to be laid.  We're steadily making progress.

Raised beds filling up gradually.

Outside the garden still looks rather bare but some plants are in.  We need some large pots and a tree and I need to find time towards the end of the month to put in the 50 bulbs I've bought.

The beginning of the herb garden