Looking good

The stairs are really starting to come together, and looking really good. The stringers and risers are all in place for the first flight up to the platform. Brian will look to fix the steps on tomorrow, he just placed them there to see how they looked. I couldn’t resist, and walked very gingerly up them. Although they felt solid, so I had nothing to worry about.

Today we started using our new cooker.

Originally I was set on having a gas hob, as that is what I was used to. However, as we would have needed to have had bottled gas, which would be a complication buying and changing bottles – and after a conversation with my nephew William about the dangers of having bottled gas in a residential environment – we looked at our other options. And I have to say we are now both loving the induction hob. It is so responsive.

The first meal I cooked for us was ‘brunch’ – scrambled egg, bacon and mushrooms.

The second meal, which we had tonight, was burgers. Brian does make extremely good burgers, so we enjoyed those with a cheese and mushroom topping, and a glass or two of Chinon. A favourite red wine of ours at the moment.