Where to start?

St Blaise

Orange.fr has been inconsiderate enough to stop putting the Saint's Day on their home page so now I have to go and look it up on the 'lovely' calendar I got in exchange for my donation to the local fire service! That's all very well for now but I will have to make sure I don't lose the calendar (I always manage it) before the end of the year!

We've been taking a bit of time to reflect on what is going to happen with the loft recently. There is a lot to consider. At the moment there is no insulation, there are no stairs and the floor is decidedly dodgy. Work on this area will take us many, many months. Starting with knocking a hole in the ceiling to give us access and getting someone in to quote us for a set of stairs. For us non-diy-ers it is going to be a very interesting time. We have to be careful to decide where the Velux windows will go before I put in the planning application. We'll have to treat all the woodwork for termites, woodworm and capricorn beetle before we start work. We will also have to decide on what sort of flooring to have up there.

My crystal ball tells me that we are in for an expensive time this year.