Not much time to write, got to go to laundrette, do shopping, make food, build house, etc.
Treated self to AWESOME folding knife at builder’s merchants.
Solution found to delivering hugely long timbers was to use a lorry designed to move farm machinery around.
The driver had said they were too big to “man”-handle but we proved him wrong. Hooray for physics.
Broke out the new mortisers and set them up.
Craig, who has used them before, explained how they work.
Everyone had a go, including Esther.
We all eat lunch.
Scribing, which is basically a matter of putting bits of wood next to and on top of other bits of wood and then fiddling around with exactly where they are until everything is parallel or perpendicular within a very small margin of error.
I cut a tenon with the HUGE circular saw and then had to tidy up the cut with my lovely new framing chisel.
And Nick showed off his massive chisel which is apparently called a “slick”.
Jack had to come and make sure we all knew he still existed.
And the place definitely looks like a building yard now.
More as time allows. Am crazy busy all the time.