"Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position." G. K. Chesterton

Not that there's much in the attic over the kitchen at the moment - apart from 5 birds nests, umpteen 50 year old newspapers used to block holes, hundreds of nails in the beams and an accumulation of dust, guano, stones and general detrius.

but once it was de-nailed and cleaned up it proved to be quite a big space

And so we started to cut and fit the insulation for the roof

so hopefully this will be finished in two or three days - by my Man Friday - before I return next month