misty mornings
What a gorgeous misty morning it was today. We’d had a really early start as we are delivering a massive stone fireplace to a house in Nottingham, and it’s going to take all today and all weekend to install. While we were loading, the sun was just sending beams through the little wood at the back of our yard, and making patterns in the mist. I had to keep telling the masons to get on cutting the stone fireplaces and not to keep gazing at the wonderful morning view!
We’d fully loaded the stone fireplace by 7.00 am and sent the two installing stone masons on their way. Hopefully they should avoid the worst of the traffic. The house they’re going to, is an Elizabethan mansion, that has been restored and turned into a conference centre. That may sound terrible, but the location meant it had few other uses, and it has been beautifully restored, so is preserved from further decay. Our stone fireplace is going into one of the large meeting rooms. The room, we think, was probably originally a ball room or something, as it is very grand. The original stone fireplace, in fact the whole end of the building where the fireplace and chimney had been, had collapsed about 20 years ago, and all the materials had disappeared. It has taken the owner a long time to accumulate replacement materials.