And so after a day ...

... where I did nothing at all (and I mean nothing at all) it was back to work today.

First job was of course the fire and the wood but by way of a change I rearranged it all today as I was fed up of the heap collapsing every five minutes. it's now in a bigger, deeper box so there's more room for it to spread out and the place looks a little neater up here. There's another load of wood cut up for the next few days and the lean-to is looking emptier and emptier. If I put my mind to it I could do the stairs in there this week but the weather will have to warm up quite a bit before I venture outside for a long period.

Emptying Caliburn took a while too. The wood and the breeze blocks are still in there but everything else is out and put away as far as is possible, and so I was finally ready to start work.

Not quite though, because there was still some slate in the way. 9 bucket-loads went downstairs onto the pile and that was that. There's some room to move about in there now although I still have much more stuff to sort out in there.

Nevertheless I've managed to put all of the framework onto the long wall in the bedroom and I followed that up with another length of insulation. But that was all, though, because due to my Sunday inactivity I had things to do - like make a start on the Christmas Special. That took a couple of hours and I reckon I've done about a third of it. At the moment I'm just writing down whatever comes into my head and I can edit it once I've got to the end of my ideas. But it's coming together nicely and I reckon that I may well be on to something with this.

Tomorrow I'll do some more work in the bedroom and a bit more on the Christmas Special unless the weather warms up dramatically and I can work outside. But not much hope of that as we are on course for another candidate for the coldest night of the winter. When I came home tonight after my Monday night conviviality it was -3.9°C outside. In the 45 minutes it took to make a quick tea and wash up it had plummeted to -5.1°C. Heaven alone knows what it is right now.