Today has, in theory, been a day off. I am going to try to be sensible and spend Sundays not at the house, because I don’t think it is actually realistic to say that I am capable of spending time in the midst of DIY needing doing and to not do something towards it. Instead, apart from church, I have tried to have a quiet day, and even read a good book (Jacqueline Winspear, Journey To Munich, in case anyone is interested!). But I have discovered that age old thing, that knowing that I have a project to do, means that I have been thinking about it a lot. I am going to have to get back into the habit of being organised, rather than taking three hours pottering over very little. So, I have drawn up a proper list of what we want people to do in and on the house, so that I can give written papers to people to quote for the work. And, depending upon the prices we get back from the other builders, I may end up project managing it all myself and engaging separate trades for the different roles. I’d rather not do that, as I realise I am not as experienced at that as I would like. I can do all the inside supervising, but I am not 100% certain about the external work. But I am a quick reader and a quick learner and have time on my hands, so I’ll get there if needed. However, what I promised today was photographs, so hopefully some will appear here now:

Image of Yaktocat

This has nothing to do with our house, and is in fact an image I took in Cambridge Botanic gardens over 15 years ago, but I am working on this one step at a time. First, learn how to embed the pictures, then I’ll learn how to upload the ones I want for this blog. In case anyone is interested, the blog is being written in markdown language using GitHub tools - can’t imagine why Matt would have chosen that… :)