The Hall Floor

I have spent many, many hours scraping black glue remnants off the hall floor, and Martin has repaired the channel that had been dug across the hall for pipework and then concreted over.  

So it has changed from this:

 To this:

Tomorrow I have a 'Tile Doctor' coming to hopefully restore them back to their former glory. Watch this space!

Dining Room

This has been the workroom/carpentry room for so long, but finally it has been emptied, painted, and I have spent some hours (days?) cleaning, sanding and varnishing the floor, so I'm pretty happy with it now, I might even get it furnished and all the crockery and glassware unpacked in time for Christmas.

  

The Study Window

The stained glass window for my study is now in. It was inspired by the beautiful fragment windows in so many of our cathedrals (wrecked in the Reformation or the Civil War and put back together as mosaics), and created by Rachael Aldridge, who made the door panels for me. See her website at: http://aldridgeglass.co.uk/  I love that she was able to let me have some left over fragments from church windows she had restored in Northampton, I found some bits for sale on ebay, and there is a little Cheshire Cat, hand painted by Rachael in the window as well.  It makes me very happy when the sun shines through it.