Day 2

Woke to sunshine. The internet works - hooray. Checked work emails. Started on the Asia climate change report. Rather spaced out from travelling. Not quite as quick to bounce back as we used to be! Broke to shop for essentials in Nenagh. On the way out of the house our neighbour said hi and that her husband the wood-fired baker is baking us a loaf. Wow. We look forward to that. When we returned with our groceries the baker handed us a brown paper bag with a warm loaf - perfect for lunch, so good. No news on the planning permission (more on this story later). A couple more hours on the climate change report. Then scrubbing and cleaning and finding somewhere to put things. The house is warm. The boiler room is boiling. We shower in there rather than upstairs in the bathroom. The district heating guru is going to come to have a look at the heating and help us check whether the settings are correct.

 Watery sunset behind the hawthorn in bloom. Note to selves. Do not have radiators with fins that catch the dust. One pot dinner to eat with the wood-fired baked bread - chicken and apple with carrots, bacon, turnip, onion and fresh thyme from the garden. Totally knackered. Making plans B and C in case the planning permission is not forthcoming soon. I do not think we can live too long in an unfinished house, we are not totally ecocrackers.