There is a little further progress to report on our kitchen improvements.

This is mainly for the benefit of my readers in Canada, New Zealand and, perhaps, France who have expressed some interest in this project: for others I can well imagine that it is a matter of small consequence, even boredom - to them I apologise and beg forgiveness.

We have now installed a counter beneath the window.
This was entirely Sue's idea: a brilliant one that would never have occurred to me, I have to say - and me a designer of kitchens!

There is a back story to this.

We had a fire in the kitchen in 1983 and, with the insurance money, rather than replace all the things we lost or that were damaged, we decided to make some improvements to the house: one of which was to put in this window.
Again, it was Sue's idea that we create a seat beneath the new window. This worked well for a while, when we had a rectangular kitchen table, but it became less useful and something of a dumping-ground once we introduced the round stone-topped table that has been the kitchen table for the last ten or fifteen years.

So, the seat has become a shelf that now provides a better home for the microwave, improved vegetable storage and space for the cookery-books.

This table is only temporary.
We think the final solution may be a baby round table, though we are toying with the idea of using stools at the new counter and having a small island unit instead of a table.

We shall see.

There's still a way to go but I aim to have it all done for Christmas.