keeping out of the weather

May 13 2015

It was mothering Sunday last weekend and I had a day out with Bo and her daughter looking for teacups and other pots for the restaurant. Bo had a firm idea about what she wanted and eventually we tracked down a suitable product. To make it fun we had a great lunch in the Moroccan place in Croyden and Bo brought me a papyrus plant in a garden centre. I lost my papyrus after the fires and this was the first time I had found the full sized variety again.

On Sunday Al gave me the best present ever by working all afternoon with us in the shower. Edd mixed up the render and Al started at the top by the skylight whilst I worked from the bottom up. There was just enough space for the two of us and the ladder but another person would not have fitted in.  After several hours work we had a first coat of render over everything and for the first time the whole room had a homogeneous surface. Next day I did a little more work on the bath wall and the corners. We are really pleased with the shapes that are emerging.

We will have to apply another layer of render and then a waterproof membrane. The inside of the bath and the shower base are to be mosaic but we are un-decided about the rest of the wall finish. We could go for something like a tadelakt or use pool paint. We conferenced with a friend who has a similar project and found that she is weighing up all the same options that we are. Mean while I am working out how I want the mosaic work to look.

It is a good time to do indoor work because the weather outside is horrible. It is very cold with frequent heavy showers. There was snow on Mt St Leonard a few kilometres away but it was not visible from here. The goats are all staying in the shed munching hay and bedding down in thick straw. The chooks braved the weather but looked very bedraggled and there were no eggs today.