I tell you what ....

.... I'm ever so impressed with my electrical set-up.

We had four bags of concrete mix today and a 375-watt cement mixer. And it mixed all of the concrete using the power off the batteries in the barn. Admittedly there was bright sunlight pushing up the amps but nevertheless it was impressive. Just as impressive was that all of the concrete was mixed using rainwater out of the water butts.

But it was hard work today. The heat was unbearable. The morning was bad enough as Terry was painting and I was shuttering in between the rafters and infilling with stones. In the afternoon it was even worse, and I was climbing up the ladders to the top of the scaffolding carrying bricks, stones, buckets of concrete and the like. It's just as well that we ran out of concrete (we're going shopping tomorrow for more) because we couldn't carry on like that in that heat.

I also dropped off Caliburn's temporary registration at the bank so they can change the insurance over, and the postwoman came, bringing Caliburn's permanent log book. She said that there would be a very violent storm at 19:00 tonight so I told her that when she's finished her round she can get up on the roof with us and help us do the slating.

She never turned up though, and she was wrong about the storm. At about 21:00 the clouds closed in and we had some rain and there was thunder rumbling away in the distance. Right now, it's P155ing down outside but nothing like what she promised us. We'll have to see what tomorrow brings.