Here is an (almost) before picture, showing the gap and the battens I put there to take the plasterboard. The triangular cut piece of wood will fill the top corner - otherwise the filler/mortar just pushes out behind and leaves an opening. You can't cut plasterboard to a fine point and expect it to stay in one piece.
This is the plasterboard in place - it'll need to be smoothed off and cleaned up before painting, but at least right now it keeps the drafts out.
And this shows where I have been working - the green plasterboard just shows in the top left-hand corner of the picture, above the suspended light fitting. We moved the desks to get the ladder up, and of course I banged my head on the oak beam just in front of the gap.
In fact there are still drafts, where the old roof timbers are exposed, but this has certainly reduced them - when the wind blew from the north-east you really noticed them.
We started the day dealing with the heating fuel (chipped wood). Water flowing down over the door of the silo had made the door swell and jam, so I couldn't get in. So I took the hinges off (torx screws, of course, lucky I had the drivers) and prised the door out. Then it was a simple matter of raking the woodchips from the ends where the mechanical sweep doesn't reach them, into the middle, and that got the boiler going again. Mind you, the boiler still turns itself on (noisily) at 6am each morning. I've decided to inflict a minor deception on it about the time of day - persuade it that it is living in England - and with a bit of luck we'll be woken up at 7am instead.
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