warmth

As would be expected, big plans for painting and cleaning up fell through when I fell ill. However, we have made some big, big progress on the fireplace, thanks to one of L.'s many cricketing contacts. A bit more expensive than Shaun-the-plasterers work, but all this is two days! Hopefully the overwhelming smell of drying plaster will lessen before tomorrow's Thanksgiving feast...

In the very beginning (mostly for Lukas's sake, so he'll stop asking me why we had to take in down in the first place):

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After L.'s demolition work last week:

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Cleaned out (I was tempted to keep it like this):

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Nixie's work, end of Day 1:

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Nixie's work, end of Day 2 (plus L.'s expert arranging):

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Not quite the roaring flames L. was picturing when we first began... but still very nice:

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