Moving Forward...

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I'm still trying to catch up on my reading: The New Statesman keeps dropping through the letterbox long before I've finished the last or even the second-last issue. Mostly my fault for having a butterfly mentality, but what the heck: loads of interesting and thought-provoking stuff to take away for next week's mini-break to Shropshire: I'll post appropriately, as and when able. Also, my to-be-read book-list is starting to groan a bit, so I'm going to have to take some decisions and apply a couple of filters to my aspirations in that department, otherwise I'll be in the same predicament as the centipede in the Sufi parable: immobile, considering how to run, without first having mastered walking.

Anyhow, it looks like the finance to get cracking on the stove installation, and the rest of the living-room upgrade is imminently available, which is a relief: I've been itching to get on with the job for over a week, now, since the fireplace was opened up and the chimney-piece finished. I particularly want to get started on the flooring [pictured is the AI-interpreted serving suggestion from the flooring supplier's website: impressive attempt, if a tad flawed], as I think that will make a huge difference to how the room feels.

But first things first, I've got the slate hearth piece to bed in, which will be inset into the flooring at the front of the hearth/ingle [the piece of Bethesda slate can be seen to the right, leaning against the wall] and the back of the ingle needs painting in a darker colour for reasons both aesthetic and practical: oh, and the loft has to be cleared for the stove installers to be able to work up there. Still, we now have light at the end of what has proved to be a rather long tunnel. Keep you posted...

 

 

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