"But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack." Ronnie Barker

 It had been September 2017 when I originally bought the doorsets from Holyrood Salvage in Edinburgh. I phoned from Eigg and asked the owner if he could check for the missing piece of architrave (there's nothing like a longshot!). Unsurprisingly both he and his assistant had found nothing amid the piles of reclaimed doors and panels. He apologised and said probably the best option was to look through the stock again to find something very similar with the idea that it could be subtly remodelled to match the existing. We looked through the stock together. He found a close approximation, I found

the actual piece which had come adrift from the original bundle. To say I was like a pig in muck is an understatement - more like a sounder of wild boars in the Amazon floodplain. 

So it's a couple of weeks visiting student teachers and then back to the Manse at the beginning of April

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Carl Sagan

Has it really been 6 months since the last entry? So much has happened away from Eigg but that doesn't mean that nothing has happened on the project. I've been trogging back and forth whenever the weather has permitted and much has been achieved. Lack of activity on the blog hasn't been helped by the mislaying of my camera - it's somewhere in Scotland securely stored in a packing case.! (The photos in this update are from my phone.) I'm just going to go room by room and put up some pictures. First, carrying on from where I left off in the corridor

So it's just the shutters and the dado rail to fit in here now.

The snug