We have light! It’s been a busy week for Chris, trying to finish off the last few sockets and light fittings before our electrician came to connect it all together. He was fairly worried incase it didn’t work, but luckily there were no major faults, and for the first time in nearly a year we have lights again.

After working evenings on the lights, Chris went off for a well-deserved rest, heading to a festival with friends. Luckily for me, my friend Becky decided to come stay, meaning I had some company. Unluckily for her, she got dragged into house renovations.

I spent most of the weekend busy on awkward bit of plasterboarding, a fairly slow job, but satisfying to see some more walls completed.

Becky got put to work building the rest of the wall in the old doorway, which she did meticulously.

The next day, on Chris’s return, we loaded up the bathtub that had been sitting in our garden for months, and manhandled it up the narrow stairs and into position in the bathroom.

It’s definitely one of the things I’m most looking forward to, as we’ll have a bathtub that looks out across the fields, certainly a luxory item.

With the bath in place Chris got on with sorting out pipes. To his annoyance he thinks he needs to put in all the plumbing at once, rather than just installing what we most urgently need now. With a rush on to get things ready for the mortgage inspector this isn’t ideal.

In the kitchen, myself and Becky continued the work of the insulation contractors, around the very fiddly windows. Though the contractors are returning to finish the job, we’ve been told that won’t be for several weeks. In order to move our mortgage, one thing we need to install is a kitchen sink. Therefore we have no choice but to get on with the awkward job ourselves.

At home, I’ve started the packing, working my way through the most chaotic room in the house; the coat cupboard. Next stop will be the equally out of control garage. Hopefully with the more demanding rooms packed up in plenty of time, last minute packing of the other, more ordered places, won’t seem as bad.

With work completed for the weekend we headed up a nearby hill, to enjoy a little of the spring sun.