last weekend for a while

 

After two weeks solid work the builder, his lads and subbies have completed the preliminaries in the west wing: gyprock is in and joins plastered, electrical wires dangling and pipes in the new bathroom and toilet. It's breath-taking how much has been done and exciting to see it looking so much lighter and more open.

But now we have to leave it as our cruise on Queen Mary 2 starts tomorrow - booked and paid for long before we even dreamed of buying a beach house.

Fingers crossed all goes well in our absence.

Daisy and Chris are determined to learn fishing so they came down today for a lesson in catching - which they did - and cleaning.

 

 

Daisy and the fish she caught

 

David insists they do their own scaling down on the beach but I notice he kindly did the filleting.

 

Daisy and Chris scaling their fish watched by ChrisM and Hannah - taken from The Nook

 

There are 3 Chrises now designated as Daisy's ChrisB (who was first), Christopher (Alison's) and ChrisM (Hannah's).

All stayed for lunch on what will be the deck and helped to remove another metal rainwater tank to the builder's skip. This was our only source of rainwater and suddenly developed a hole on Saturday morning, dumping its contents onto the dune. Our water problems continue but David has ordered two large tanks for rainwater to be delivered on his return so let's hope it rains soon after.

We had to empty out the drab kitchen which I've come to accept, but the new one will be enormously better.
 

 

to be continued in 3 weeks+ time.
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