The amount of time I’ve spent on coving four windows would be hard to believed. They’re finally done; filled, sanded, and caulked. Although they are a tiny detail in much bigger rooms, it’s amazing how much more finished they make the rooms look. So they may be bodge jobs, because the angles were impossible to calculate, but I’m still pretty happy with them.

Out in the van it’s all similarly mathematical, as we moved on to building the bed frame. Chris has found a design online, which was fairly simple to follow. Still it took a long time cutting every piece and putting them together.

We started with the back bench, which needed two sets of hands to keep everything in the right place while joining them together.

The sides were easier for me to get on with on my own, so Chris could concentrate on the electrics, which is the biggest headache of doing up a van, and something I don’t understand in the least.

With the benches built, we cut down the mattress we’d bought into the right sizes, so they can be benches or a bed, when needed. Now these are all cut up my next evening job will be sewing the covers.

We then started to get the ceiling on, Chris laying the wire for the lighting first.

Outside the van, the garden is coming along well. It still looks like chaos, but slowly some order is forming. As part of this I’ve started shaping the rambling roses into a coherent form, pulling in tendrils to create a sphere. It’s a bit of an experiment, but hopefully it will mean I can form them into a kind of rose topiary. The other garden roses are starting to put on a show, and I look forward to the day when the garden is full of the scent of roses.