I came back to considerable progress... some of the plastering has been done inside. I was away for two weeks in sunny Africa and it seems that Manu and his team got some work done while I was away. My other half has exerted himself and built in the electrical plugs I ordered, and in the right places too! If the outside temperatures were not so cold, we could already have slow-cooked pois-chiche at the round table. Alas, there is more cold coming and the heating will not be installed till next winter.