tidy the fireplace

This is how the fireplace looked in the bull-barn. Once Pete had taken out the manger, the bottom of the wall was a mess, where the big hearth stone had been removed. Luckily the bottom bit of wall is bedrock, so it's safe enough.
We have built up a small wall across the front of the fireplace and cut and waxed a piece of the old walnut manger-edging to top it. So now we have a (not very comfortable) bench-seat rather than a yawning gap.

How about getting the last row of floor tiles to fit exactly up to the end wall? Good planning eh? The building is actually a remarkably accurate rectangle, and despite starting with a row down the centre, we only had to cut tiles down one edge of the space.

below - Hugh is in training to fit Pete's guitar case sometime very soon.