Back again... again!

Well it's been a while again... since my sister passing away, preparing for No. 2 daughter being born, then the birth, then Christmas, then New Year... and breathe... I have managed to fix a dodgy connection on the bath which was leaking into the kitchen every time we showered, replace the old shower with a new 'leccy one, half finished (well actually less than about a tenth finished) repairing the concrete pillars in the bay windows and that's about it!

Whilst this year has semi-completely bypassed me the list of jobs to do around the place has grown somewhat.  The damp in the house is now beginning to grind me down; the box room at the front has two walls (one at the front and one attaching to the neighbour's house) which have developed 'Dark spots' that looks like damp, Kid no.1's room has damp in the bay (hopefully caused by a combination of rotten window frames and crumbling pillars) and the living room bay has said replicating damp in the bay also directly underneath this room.  There is also a few ominous-looking spots of discolouring on her bedroom ceiling which looks a yellowy-orange colour, which I can only assume is rainwater accumulating... Something else requiring investigation!  The damp has to have taken over as priority number 1 so the windows at the front at least will need doing.

There is also damp to the back of the house right in the corner of the kitchen, again I think contributed to the guy next door's shoddy house leaking all over the shop.

Let me tell you a bit about the guy next door.  He arrives at his house at 1400hrs every Thursday.  stays for an hour or a little more, then leaves.  I spoke to him once, he is a bit old and mental!  Nice chap, but he hasn't lived there for about ten years apparently, and has just left it to rot, and that is the literal rot.  I may include some pictures of this at a later time, but it rains too much to do anything to it!

So anyway stuff seems to be leaking from his house into ours, but I will get to the bottom of it at some point.  It's quite difficult being able to afford building materials and things with two kids, a Mrs. and one income!