This week brought our first touch of snow, though none of it settled. The roads are really icy however, and it seems the gritters don’t believe in salting little roads like ours, so getting plenty of ice skating practice on the morning dog walks.

I finished off the bathroom coving this week, painting over the white woodwork and retouching the yellow walls.

I’m not a big fan of painting over unpainted wood, but decided the mirror looked a bit out of place, so touched it up with the ceiling paint.

After trying for ages to find a suitable secondhand bathroom cabinet we finally gave up and brought a new one, which is now up on the wall. Just a towel rack to add, which Chris has a plan to hand make.

Moving on from the bathroom I finished off the coving in the bedroom, which unfortunately was all troublesome angles and cutting out odd shapes for curtain poles.

While I was fiddling around with a few small bits of coving upstairs the plasterer finished plastering the remainder of the kitchen. When it comes to the tortoise and the hare, the hare definitely won this one.

Chris has been getting on with the showerroom. As this room is more about future proofing the house than something we need at the moment, we decided to move our tools into here to free up the study, our current dumping ground. Before filling it to the brim, Chris finished off the plasterboarding and has almost finished plastering. The layers of chaos on the study are going to be fun to untangle, definitely a job for the Christmas break.

While the filler dried on the coving I trimmed a spare door, too small for any of our doorways, to size for the cupboard. Because the chimney is so wonky the edge of the door will have to be cut in a curve. Just a second little door to attach to the top, and shelves to build.

This week’s work certainly felt slow to me, all small and fiddly jobs on my side, but at least Chris and the plasterer have significantly moved two rooms on. We’re both looking forward to a big push at Christmas, a chance to take some big steps hopefully.