We're planting and weeding the garden like crazy - not so many slugs this year - thank goodness. And we've got ducklings - Yay. They're really cute and they like eating slugs - so lots of bonuses. I'm looking forward to duck eggs and if any hatch we'll increase our flock and have some for the table. Mmm, free range ducks - I'll know exact;y how they've been reared so I will be 100% guilt free when we eat them.

Our first visitor of the year is coming in a little over two weeks and we're working like crazy to try and get another room finished so we don't have to share sleeping areas. So far the room is lookig FANTASTIC. I'll take pics when it's done. The walls are plasterboarded, the door casings are in and the exposed stonework has been repointed. We've tiled the floor and apart from cleaning the original woodork, filling in the gaps between the plasterboards and a lick of paint the room is all but finished. OK, so we still need skirting boards, doors and the ceiling needs finishing off - but we won't do that until he floor above has been laid - no point - it'll only crack when we put down the floorboards - so the plan is leave finishing the ceiling until the floor above is done. It will very soon be the most finished room in the barn!