Tiles, Upstairs Floor and More about Legs

Mary made a site visit last week. She says the shower tiles have been re-done in a smaller size; and if we don't like it we must say. If we say, I suppose she will become even fiercer. She says the floor upstairs is jolly nice. We had agreed with her that wax, including the white Scandinavian wax, is much nicer than the varnish that Alistair was proposing as being more durable, which it may well be. No tackety boots upstairs, then. Mary thinks that we may be able to manage without the end Legs, and she is asking an engineer about this.

This last bit seems horribly long - waiting for the electricity and plumbing, and for the kitchen to be finished. The cabinet maker, though very good, is slow. So maybe we won't commission a table from him. We have decided, too, not to have a sort of semi-freestanding set of shelves under the window on the back wall of the kitchen, of wood, by Stuart the cabinet maker, which Mary was wondering about, but to compromise with a slab of his elm on top of the white built in shelves.