Removing slats from walls and removing bedroom ceilings

The plaster said the dreaded words: "Mate, the slats have to come down". Here are some progress pictures.

These are both taken from the middle bedroom looking into the study.



Here is the pile we removed. This is only about 2/3 of them.



Our original intention was to leave the front & middle bedrooms' ceilings in place and just sheet over them. However when I was up on the ladder I noticed they were sagging pretty badly, so we decided to pull them down. What a mess!

This is from the study looking into the middle bedroom.

Lupin home after Christmas

Lupin arrived home from the kennels at 5:45am today smelling of flea treatment, and was fast asleep by 6:45am. I managed to wait until 3pm before stroking his velvet ears. Here he is playing with the toy that P & G gave him for Christmas.