Lime plastering in Abruzzo

We've really been struggling with getting our house plastered -I never knew that it was such a difficult operation and am now a firm supporter of leaving well alone unless its really falling off the wall!

We stripped off all of the old plaster -probably causing us lots of extra work!But we dis discover an old niche (probably from when the house was a church) which we have now kept as part of the room and then we found massive defects inthe rubble stone walls -some areas nearly 1ft square made up from mud and small stone!