I’ll give a quick status report now, and will start doing and posting more as the winter draws into spring.

On 16th December I was done with work for the year (we got lots of time off to compensate for the loss of our annual bonus as part of the company’s cost cutting exercises) so after I got arrested I called a few plasterers, none of whom replied to me, so I decided to hibernate for the full 3 weeks I had off. It was brilliant! I tidied, hoovered, grocery-shopped and cooked and et and slept. It was a really good recharging experience. I’m already seeing how much time off I can take next midwinter.

Further to the previous post, I did get the door on and a fully private bathroom by the time Bro and H visited, so that was nice! I now have plasterboard or cementboard on all the walls, and need to talk to a plasterer to see whether I need to improve some of the joins or whether the plasterer can work with what I already have.

But before I do that, I need to adjust the position of the shower elbow behind the wall. Which is fine because I also need to move the wall in by about 8mm so that it makes a good square corner for the bath to fit in. Right now the fit is JUST too loose to be covered by tile and grout and sealant.

I had been intending to adjust the wall over the Christmas break but didn’t get around to it, mainly because the work areas were in a terrible state, I couldn’t find my tools and couldn’t see the floor.  And I was too fed up to tidy those because I was tired and hungry and I couldn’t rest or eat because the rest of the house was also a tip.

So hibernation was the best option. Slowly I got the bedroom, living room and kitchen back “on-line” over the holidays, and then last night, because I felt like it, I swept and tidied the work areas, and sorted most of my tools back into their proper boxes. So the bathroom itself has not progressed, but things are actually looking pretty rosy right now!