In exciting news, we now have new gates and roller-doors for the outside area. This means no more lugging furniture in and out every day. While this may sound particularly unexciting to you, to Tim and I it means getting to bed an hour earlier every day.

The gates were installed in true bodgie fashion by brother-in-law Greg, who told me that looking away when grinding is as safe as safety glasses and closing your eyes when welding is safer than a welding mask. He also wanted me to state for the record that he purposely did rough welds to fit in with the “rustic theme”.

Here he is grinding while looking away.