Maintenance

Today's been mostly spent on various bits of tidying and maintaining. I've done a lot of repointing (a few bits of wall; two slate lintels; the window-frames in the garage and workshop; and the gable end of the utility room), which took a while. I also resealed the picture windows in the sitting room and dining room, as those frames are still wood. We'll replace them with uPVC, eventually, but they're holding on, and as one (we don't know which) might turn into French doors into a conservatory, we don't want to commit yet to a replacement design.

Liz did sterling work trimming the grass in the colour wheel corner (between the paving slabs), and tidying up around the garden. We finished by cutting back the ivy growing on the front of the house, which has reached the guttering. I've cut it down to halfway up the first-floor windows, and will need to maintain it at about that height.