Also...

... the bathroom is scheduled to be plastered while we're away. Dave likes to give random strangers access to our house while we're away - the fact that we've used this plasterer before apparantly means he *isn't* a stranger at all.

Silly Maria.

And then... on Wednesday, the tiling will start!! Yay!

Hopefully by NEXT weekend, we will have a fully functioning bathroom with shower and flushing toilet! And it will only have taken 6 months.

We may have a party once we have a 'usable' bathroom. We may have a couple of parties actually, because there are groups of friends that don't really know each other, and actually won't have much in common.

One of them may even be a 'garden' party.

Not the nice "Pimms and cucumber sandwiches" type of garden party, but more like the "bring-your pickaxe-'cause-you're-going-to-be-helping-us-to-dig-up-the-nasty-concrete-drive-and-patio-in-return-for-lots-of-beer-and-curry" type of party.

We've just got to figure out how to write that on the invitations...