I hate to leave it so long without writing but it’s been crazy here. We have been working hard all day and every day and there is little time or energy to do anything else at night but eat and drop into bed.  My new friends are Mr Bosch and Mrs Makita. I now know what an SDS drill is and why you would want one when you are drilling into concrete blocks.
Getting ready to leave my house here means clearing rooms, letting go of stuff, making decisions about what to take to Catalunya and what to leave in Cornwall. And leaving things in Cornwall means finding a place to store them.
So this is the current project, making a place dry and secure and suitable for putting my stuff while I am out of the country.
I have three drills on the go at the same time which feels tremendously energising – the baby one does the wood, the bigger Mr Bosch does the marking out and the indomitable Mrs Makita makes short work of the blocks, cutting through them as if they were Cornish clotted cream. What with that and the concrete mixing I have constant aches in my shoulders but at least I sleep well at night.