To anyone hanging on there and waiting for news - sorry! November and December brought rather lethal weather and all sorts of contingent hassles which rather diverted us....
As I write, we are seeing the last of the snow turn to sheet ice and present us with skiddy rather than sub-zero problems. Winter has come early and February can often be the one to watch for, so we wait and see.
Good news is that we have a comfortable and warm new workshop to work in. The old machinery is now all stored there and we are slowly working through it, cleaning off generations worth of muck. Actually, this is a horrid job but it must be done! Every day we are revealing unknown bits of wear and tear and compiling a list of repairs to be done. The aim is to have all the carding and spinning machinery re-furbished and ready to move back to the renovated old mill building by August.... so watch this space!
Here's the mill and new workshop today:
And for those of you who know the inside of the old mill - here's what it looks like with it's floors ripped up !
