Living Dangerously

One of the ongoing projects is Operation ‘Bottomless Pit’. I have never had the urge to document this, but it's been going on for so long that people are now demanding photographic evidence of the domestic chaos to prove that we're not simply being antisocial. So here goes the latest...

We have now come to sorting out the fireplace. In true 'bottomless pit' style, while we managed to get a new slate hearth, we lost the fire. It was condemned on the spot and apparently, there was simply not enough space on the gas man’s form to list all the hazards.

So few weeks on, the guys came back to carry out much drilling and hammering, I now have a new and perfectly safe fire. Not sure if it’s just me, or the obsessive-compulsively lined up coal... I still think the old “death trap” is more in fitting with everything...