The Kitchen Project moves on a bit......

And this is my temporary kitchen,

looking like a shed,

all in a general muddle although I do try to make order.

Do you see the bowl on the table in the front of the photo?

That is my washing up area.

Do you see the red bowl beside it?

That is my drainer.

The hot water I get from the sink in the bathroom,

which is just beside me.

I have not had a proper sink for six years.

I have probably said this before.

I am not moaning,

Just saying.

Anyways....

here is the 'proper' kitchen,

with the rat-run holes between the walls and the ceiling

now all filled up.

which I am going to start painting,

when I have done other things....

...and here is Lester filling in a mousehole,

the mouse having given away its hidey hole,

when he was starting to work on this area of the kitchen,

which is where the cookers are going.

out of the wall the little mouse jumped,

which the dogs enjoyed,

nothing like a mouse chase to perk the energies up.

The concrete plinth that Lester is sitting on

 is where the Rayburn is going to go.

..... and here is the other cooker,

it is a SMEG,

that is going on the wall behind it.

That came from Italy. 

The Rayburn came from the UK.

Crikey!!! Global cookers!!!!

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....and this is what Lester managed to do today,

which is to start building the open sided hut in which the cookers are to go:

two short half height walls at either end of the L shape,

and the block brick wall to cover the up and down mountainous landscape

of a wall which once had the old bread oven in it.

The kitchen when we arrived in 2008

...it's coming along!!!

Weeding this morning in the veg plot for Lester,

and while he did that 

 I made seven pots of peach jam,

and eleven pots of apricot jam from the fruit

he brought into the house from the trees he planted

when we first came here.

He felt as proud as anything when he walked in through the door with the harvest.

Lunch was homemade sausage meat and egg pie

( DIY sausage meat from the big girl pig we slaughtered a while back,

the eggs were from our hens, and the butter for the pastry was

from the cream of our cow)

I failed on the veggies for lunch though,

and we had chips!

But I did make DIY baked beans:

( can of cooked haricot beans, rinsed, then put into a pot with a little cold water in the bottom to stop the beans from burning, added a dollop of mustard, and huge squirting of Heinz tomato ketchup, then heated everything up. Tastes the same as a 'proper' tin of Heinz baked beans, but are a fraction of the price that tins of Heinz beans cost here in France).

Meanwhile, into the All American Canner went a frozen leg of male goat,

and that will be for the dogs to eat over the next couple of days.

.....but then the stormy weather did me in,

and I went to bed for the afternoon,

and that is when Lester carried on with the wall in the kitchen.

He is working very hard for us at the moment,

and I feel privileged to have him walking in stride beside me.

Hope you have someone who walks beside you as well,

sometimes irritating you because none of us are perfect,

but most times helping to pick you up when  you stumble.

Hope you are not as zapped as I am if you are currently having day after day of stormy weather!

Vx