Okay some people have been asking me about progress in the presbytery in Thezan and yes, I was out there last week and yes, I did take my usual superfluity of photographs, but I have been slow to blog them because they just don’t look that great.

The builder is now virtually finished, the plumber has only a couple of small jobs to do the electrician still has a bit to go but frankly the place is still a mess and not yet at its most photogenic.

The following shots then are for those who have had the builders in and understand that when they leave there is still a mighty lot of work to do.
They record that moment of house undress before the decoration starts.

Where the old nuns loo was, at the end of the hall on the ground floor, we put a French window out to the terrace. As the stairs bends over this part of the hall most able bodied people will have to stoop to find their way but it does brighten up the whole hall and (most importantly) it was like this in the house originally.

This is the same French door on the terrace side.

The other place we got work done was in the attic.
As well as a completely new roof, and feet deep of thick insulation (more against summer heat than cold) we created a much larger bedroom by taking a chunk out of the corridor and adding it to the second bedroom.

In the first attic bedroom (Sile and mine) we fitted this new window, its peculiar shape is because it sits in the original wall of the town and something wide would have been inappropiate.

There was a little room in the corridor which had no given function. As the builders were plastering the walls of this room started to crumble and we discovered it was just a fairly useless addition so we tore it down.
It immediatly revealed that this was the original open landing
Unfortunately we had already used this room to hide one of our boilers so now we will have to do something with this. However as this is in the private part of the house it’ll wait for stage two of the improvements. (the stage which rests on an ever lengthening finger)

This is my bath, my huge long wide bath, which we have put into our bathroom in the attic.
This is going to give me the luxury of (close to) total immersion for the first time in decades. I cant wait for the first one!