Tiling the blue bathroom

Today I finished off the floor tiles in the blue bathroom, grouting them and cleaning it all up. I found that in the three months since I last did any grouting, I'd forgotten such vital matters as how long to leave the grout before washing the tiles, and then how long before I could clean them off with a dry cloth. What a good thing there's the internet out there.

So this is what it looks like, with the floor finished and the walls and other surfaces all to do later:



The area by the door isn't quite right - you have to finish putting down the tiles in the doorway - if not you can't get out of the room. But that means that the last ones go down into a space where three sides are already in place. It's OK if the gaps turn out a little larger than they should be, but both times I ended up a little tight at the end. But it only shows if you know what you're looking for.

When we drove back from England last week, we called in on our friends Jo and Alan Taylor. Alan had just finished a painting for us, showing the outside workshop as it was in September last year. This is what it looks like - click on the picture to see a larger size version.



It's now hanging in our room in the barn, and looks very good there. Even though, as Alan pointed out, everyone will be able to see we have a problem with woodworm, to judge by the industrial size tin of Xylophene visible there. And that's only the most recent of five or six of them.