Bacon Success

A very enjoyable cooked breakfast! The sausages were excellent, and the bacon has worked well. It's a bit too salty, though, so in future it'll want to be soaked briefly, I think. As expected from slicing it, it's not a particularly pink bacon, but it tastes the part. Next time, I might adjust the cure recipe, to have a bit more sugar, and a bit more saltpetre. I might also try a wet cure. Still, that's six months off.

In other news, I've finished putting up the cupboards in the utility room, and also installed a worktop under them/over the washing machine. It's looking really smart, and the cupboards are invaluable. The walls need painting, and the curtains need changing, but it's getting there!

The gap in the kitchen units (where the dishwasher used to live, and which was a hole under the worktop) has now also been filled, with three Contiboard shelves, which looks much neater, and is a useful space. We've also recently put up two long shelves in the workshop, above the big freezer, which has immediately been filled with ring-binders from our degrees. Still, it's better than having them in boxes in the garage, which was their previous residence.

Last two jobs of the weekend have been putting an extra foot of insulation in the loft over our bedroom. As I said in December, the existing insulation was ancient and thin, so this was an ideal way to improve things. It took six big rolls (and, actually, I need another half-roll), but was quite straightforward. The other two lofts (above the two bathrooms, and above the two guest/spare rooms) still need doing, which means getting another 10/11 rolls sometime...it's a slow process, as we can only fit a couple in the car at any time. Still, we'll try to get two tomorrow, as there's a B&Q trip planned. The other job was putting up a rail of coat hooks in the cloakroom, and taking out the sideboard that had been left there. That's now at the foot of the bed (an experiment), and the cloakroom's looking much better.

Busy weekend? Yes.