Christopher and Simon are our first visitors since we arrived here at the end of May. The opted for the working vacation arrangement!! It was their choice - Honestly!! They have worked very hard and so far have been here less than a week. We hae also taken them out and about a little bit, which has given us an hour or two off every now and then!!

It is important to check that it is possible to get through the crawl spaces underneath the gound floor!!

It probably wont be very clear to you right now, but these are beginning of the foundations underneath the ground floor!! Hopefully, in due course, all will become clear!!

Just looked back over what I have written and shown and realise that I have mentioned our 'lodger' twice!! Sorry about that!! But . . . .

Thought you might like to see one or two of our neighbours!! The first group do not have names!! But I did have to stop them eating the buds on the new climbing rose I had planted!! Next is Louise (our landlady) and her daughter Matilde and last, but certainly not least is Claude. A lovely character and full of all sorts of information and helpful advice!!

It would appear that we have taken in a lodger for a little while!! This little fellow has been turning up each evening about nine o'clock and flapping his wings outside until we open the window and let him in!! He then settles down for the night on a large nail in one of the ceiling beams - he doesn't seem to mind us just getting on with our evening, having supper, washing up, generally chatting or watching a movie. None of this seems to bother him. We leave the window open when we go to bed and he has gone when we get up in the morning. Just a beautiful 'extra' to living in the country.

Can't believe it is so long since I added photographs and comment to this Diary. Just give me a while to get the household and building site up and running for today!! and I will come and add some more - lots has happened over the last two or three weeks.