A big milestone for me

Today I finished the new cloaks cupboard that I’ve been constructing in my house since last month. It’s appearance is deceptive as it belies the number of hours that I’ve put into it, partly because I do not have access to a workshop with automatic tools and have had to rely the whole time on simple hand tools and partly because a bespoke build of anything always takes much more time and effort than just assembling a kit bought from a supplier such as Brico Depot.

The images below show the space as it was handed over to me by the builder of my house and the transition to what it has become today and I am very happy with the results.

You my be wondering why this is a milestone for me and this is the reason. I see a distinction between ‘projects’ and ‘jobs’. A project consists of a series of tasks carried out over a period of time in order to achieve a final result, so decorating my house’s interior was a project as was installing my kitchen. A job is a ‘one off’ that can be carried out in a day, or maybe two, so mowing the grass I see as a job.

I’ve been working virtually non-stop on projects in order to complete the interior and exterior construction of my house since last June and this cloaks cupboard is the very last one. All that’s left are jobs – bits of tiling in the kitchen and ‘cellier’, applying beading around the interior door frames, painting the shutters – all things that I can more or less do at my leisure, without pressure and it’s a great feeling as it’ll give me more time to take on more pleasurable activities, like flying and riding my new e-bike.

But first I’ll have to mow the grass for the second time and before I can do that I’ll have to refit the cutter belt on my ride-on mower that somehow managed to jump off its pulleys last time. And as I look forward to getting out into the fresh air I noticed this morning that after being in my garden for about three years and never having borne fruit, my little apple tree that had a trunk with a diameter of 2-3 cms has been bitten off about 10 cms above the ground and the two cherry trees reduced to mere twigs. So everything in the garden isn’t lovely after all, far from it… 🙁