27th April 2018
I prepared the site for a major plastering session, bags of plaster were at the ready.
Andy came early prepared to do battle, and I was going to be the plumber’s mate.
The big wall was the challenge, with the stairs removed a makeshift scaffold was set up.
The first bucket on plaster was mixed, and all I had to do was to lift it on to the scaffold plank. That was easier said than done. A twenty-five kilo bag weighs twenty-five kilos plus half a bucket of water cumulated in a bucket full of pink shit that really strained my greens. Whilst he got on with spreading the muck around, I tackled the levelling compound that had dried rock solid on the steps in the porch.
Another Lifetime to go 