"The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it." Josh Billings

The front windows in the kitchen were rotten and had to be replaced. The two at the back, although dilapidated, weren't beyond repair. I was especially fond of them since the bottom half of one had been blown out of its frame during a gale,

 hurled across the kitchen , and embedded vertically into a bag of cement. I felt this was an omen and it was this that they deserved a second chance. I made some replacement side struts 

and then rubbed down and painted the frame

The smaller one had a painted stone sill - probably used for keeping food cool on days of yore

It took six hours, two applications of Nitromors and the degradation of two scrapers and a wire brush to achieve this

After painting, this was the result

Next job, tiling the other window ledge.