I haven't posted anything for over a month now, so lots of pics to go up today. I had a small exhibition of prints in the local village, and met and made some friends as a result.

Had no money left at the beginning of the month so worked on tidying the garden. Built up the garden wall next to the road and cleared and dug over a large portion of the bottom garden, including removing a large tree root from the corner. I discovered a good method is to dig out the root as best you can creating a moat around the stump, then fill it with water, leave for a day or two and keep filling with water, then you can remove the mud from under the root, I got quite far with this method before the local farmer kindly removed it for me with his tractor, saving me a lot of effort.

Towards the end of the month I had a little bit of work so earned a few quid to enable me to get on with the house again. Bought some cement and some windows for the kitchen so been busy building up the kitchen walls ready to put the door and the windows in. The kitchen door is in now actually, sanded a couple of the old beams from the ruin for the door frame.
Put a large beam in the kitchen too, to support the roof struts.

 One of the door frames after sanding

 The old beam before sanding

 and after.