all down hill from here

Well we had a plesant visit from Gerry & Janis Plumb in the camper van on route to Spain and Portugal - they called in for a coffee and of course we captured them and didn't let them go until they had had the guided tour of Riders Rest lol, it was good to see them.

We have mostly been getting on with the Barn and adveretising the B&B and we have had our first firm bookings from the website - a couple from Sweden and a guy and his child from the UK both for the same two nights - spooky or what - bloody gud init...

well it is all down hill from here in the barn and attic room.

All that is remaining in the attic is to fabricate and fit the cubiehole doors x 2, lay the Vynal flooring, and fix a skirting board all round, get a new door to the outside world and last but not least buy lights and fix them.

Jimmy grouting the bath tiles

In the Barn we have started to tile the floor which is a huge step and the last big thing to do, leaving the painting and decorating, floor covering in the bathrooms Vynal again, skirtingboards, one cubiehole door and fix the lights up, everything else is practically sorted.

a before tiling the floor shot of The BunkRoom sleeping area
from the patio doors looking towards the bathrooms

This shot is from the window end of the sleeping area with the patio doors to the left and the
bathrooms to the right - you can see the start of the tiles making their way accross the floor...

This one looks into the sleeping area from the bathrooms area
- again with the start of tiling

All the beds arrived on Tuesday from IKEA so once we have the decoration done we can assemble them and we are ready...

Of course that leaves the outside to tidy up, some outside furniture to get and position, guttering (which can wait now - well we are approaching summer) and I want to lay some hard stnding out alongside the pigsty for parking outside so bikes can be safely washed etc.

We have already started to clear the jungle away at the rear of the house and already it has made a huge improvement, and increased our space two fold - what do you think?