Wed 30 Apr
We've got the last of the large cladding panels on so tonight we fire up the heater. The house is still full of holes, and we have towels blocking off most of the bedroom shutters which have yet to be clad, but the heater does a reasonable job of raising the temperature inside.

Apart from being warmer when we go to bed though it's of little use because we're still sitting outside.

Thu 1 May
It's exactly one year since we started building, and while we're not finished we're getting close. We are however marking the day by moving into the truck, that's right, as of today we're officially living in our new motorhome.

Sort of.

Chris doesn't trust me to get the TV working in time for her favourite show so we still sit under the tarp for most of the evening.

Fri 2 May
We're mostly inside now, the TV is installed (albeit rather dodgily) and the chairs are in, but we're still cooking under the tarp because there's some gas left in the camp stove and we're too tight to waste it.

The fridge is outside as well, we're in that limbo area between living inside and living outside the truck much the same as we were with Wothahellizat 1. When you build like we do, ie. no house and only one set of possessions, there's always a period when you're half in and half out, where the coffee is inside but the milk is outside, the food is inside but not the cooker etc.

It's a real pain but I'm sure we'll get over it and it won't be for long.

Our home of the last year, a tarpaulin in the corner of the workshop, is being taken down.

The fridge is still outside and the camp stove (left of centre on the bench) will stay in service until the gas runs out. The "kitchen" bench is now mostly covered with paint tins.

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