So here's my January retrospective . . . and can't say it started well:
After being super-careful not to take Covid to family for the 'Christmas' visit - it turned out they already had it, and I brought it home with me.
At least I escaped with a relatively mild experience - just felt like I was getting a cold for a couple of days, then it went away. No real cough or aches and pains - I've had much worse from a common cold!
Took a while to test negative, but Martin never caught it - neither did my sister (the brother-in-law was patient 0 and felt pretty bad), or Mum (Dad tested positive but didn't have any symptoms).
So hopefully that's our brush with Covid done with!
On a more positive note . . .
Phil is still around and about the place, enjoying his peanuts.
And Martin entered his half century - marked by a Chinese takeaway with family (post self-isolation!). We'll have to plan for his proper celebration trip when the whole Covid thing allows.
The Folly also now has decorated walls, electricity, lighting and internet, a fully fitted vinyl plank floor, and skirting boards. In fact the builders and electricians are all done and dusted.
Which just leaves the wood burning stove, which is proving to be a bit more problematic.
Can't say we've been impressed by the fitter.
The builders had been done for a couple of weeks before he finally turned up to lay the hearth - then he couldn't get the flue to attach to the outside wall and had to come back twice to get some struts in place to attach it to.
As it stands there is still a hole through the wall and no flue - but at least the stove is out of its box, and in the Folly awaiting further developments.
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