"I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does." Abbas Kiarostami

Today was the day when I would ratify the decision to buy 125 square metres of second hand floorboards. Their previous life had been under a vinyl floor in a hospital in Liverpool and they had been stored first in a container in Aberdeenshire, then stacked in a dusty pile in the dining room. 

The first attempt using a hand sander made me realise I would need a faster and more effective tool. Enter the "wood thicknesser"

which turned this

into this.

A belt sander took off the sharp edges and contours

and I was more than a little chuffed with this

Only another 100 square metres to go!