Of soot, of tanks and Shogun!

So...after a few days of being smoked like herrings today Will completely overhauled the stove, cleaning it out, cobbing up the cracks and fitting a new flue pipe....so far so good.After that we settled our new water tank into its new home but it meant having to move the woodpile and wood chopping area and level the ground first.Finally we fitted together 'Shogun' our new cement mixer, no mean feat when the assembly instructions were in 'Engrish'...'Using the bolt set number 5, and the wheel of the heeling, we screw the bolt from the bottom, and from the top we put spring and stopper.''REMEMBER !! THE WEDGE BELT MUST BE STRAINED! YOU CAN DO IT GOVERNING THE MOTOR PILLAR'

These pictures make it seem like I did all the work myself...Fine, if you want to believe that.