Wrap Up !

These are the Before pictures...our home is being wrapped...should this be  "outsulated" rather than "insulated" ??

 The front garden is being used as a yard for our block of houses

 They're working round the older half of the village , built 1930s onwards, pre-fabricated houses with a 20 year expected life.....metal frame,single skin brick...

 Now they're using money that central government takes from power companies and Scottish government's money from Europe to do all sorts of insulation. We do have to pay, but luckily only a tenth of the cost.

I don't envy them working in this weather. At least we aren't having hurricanes or tornadoes, thankfully. We just get the windy and wet tail end of each one after it makes its way around the ocean.
The scaffolders are here today, but all our insulating, rendering and harling was supposed to have been finished mid August...there are some jobs that the rain holds back.

I'm looking forward to even smaller bills this Winter as well as feeling warm!

Victoria Plums...and weather..positively

Spicy Plum Chutney so far, ready for the Winter....

Today has been progressively wetter...so no ride out on the bikes today.

However today has been positive, despite the rain. The scaffolders have reached our house, and a large pile of poles and planks awaits them for tomorrow.
Home Energy Scotland has been organizing insulation and our home is about to be wrapped and rendered..that should hold it together for a few more years.
The schemes were built in the 30s, 40s and 50s with a twenty year life expectancy...metal frame and single skin brick...

Then a friend of the Pirate called by and ended up leaving, after coffee and talk, with the rocking chair that I'm always tripping over and some air mechanics memorabilia...and the offer to construct the exit flue/ damper section for my kiln.

I've been pushing on with lino printing, using linseed oil based inks this time.
Messier, but worth it for the better finish .  Enough to inspire me to cut some more....