The scaffolding is back here

Terry and Liz brought it round this afternoon. And it's much more useful having a trailer to stick it all on so that you can just drag it round and leave it somewhere like this instead of having to maul it in and out of vans. That old caravan chassis is definitely the way to go.

And so is the hardstanding too. I wouldn't have liked to have done this anywhere else around the place and there isn't anywhere else really to leave it. The money I spent doing this hardstanding is money well spent if you ask me.

But the trailer didn't half churn it up. That's no surprise rally given the rain that we've had. I've been gradually flattening it by driving Caliburn, loaded with sacks of cement and so on, over the place where I can reach but the torrential rain is playing havoc with everything and it's just like a running river. In the end we had to winch the trailer into position and I've had my money's worth out of that winch too just recently.

We should all have gone for a wander around the brocante at Lapeyrouse after but the dreadful weather put paid to that. It's rained on 14 consecutive days and then after a 2-day break it rained for 10 consecutive days before that. Of those 24 days, 11 days had rain of 10mm or more, and of those, 4 had more than 20 and another one reached 36.5mm. What can you say about weather like this? And there is no end in sight.