In an attempt to record progress, I took this snap of the Great Hall earlier in the evening. You can see that we are around the half-way mark in laying the oak strip flooring.
Gavin and Gregor, my builders, are keeping busy: there is a lot of laying when you have narrow floorboards and a large room.
One thought that occurred to me is that in 2013 when I bought this 1924 reclaim oak flooring, it was not antique. Now it is antique.
Gregor recently found some birch planks amongst the oak - rather naughty of the salvage company to supply this. However, I think we have enough oak to floor two principal rooms with current supplies.
Today I was felled by a tiny terrier!
Ryan, the castle chef, and I had taken Gavin's dogs Jazz and Oscar out for a walk in the countryside. There was a terrible tangle of leads and in the resulting confusion Jazz ploughed into the back of my lower legs. Given I was standing somewhat unsteadily on a steep slope at the time, the inevitable happened. I fell backwards over Jazz, almost crushing him in the process. I had the presence of mind to bend my legs to try and form a bridge over Jazz, and he was more shocked than anything. Ryan merely laughed prolongedly and cruelly, and I accused him of responding more fulsomely to basal physical comedy than to my wit. :-)
It's good that everything is going well, and be careful with those knocks, they hurt the next day.
ReplyDeleteFrom way across the big pond, my joy is great at seeing the Great Hall lookin' so good! SQUEE!!!!!!!!
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