No solar shower today!

And no automatic hot water either. What we did have was 39mm of rain! And it's still p155ing down outside and I don't think that it's ever going to stop.

Having rerouted the guttering the water was coming down the verandah roof at such a speed that it was shooting over the top of the guttering. Putting a slate up to block the flow caused the guttering to overflow. But the water butts are full so that is something.

We made great progress with this roof today until about 15;30 when the rain started. But it wasn't the rain that stopped us, it was the lightning. When you are working on a metal scaffolding and climbing up and down an aluminium ladder then lightning is the last thing that you want. And so we tidied up and called it a day.

But that wasn't all of it. About half an hour later Lieneke came round in a panic. A rock had fallen off the wall and through one of the tiles on her bathroom roof and her bathroom was flooded in the storm. And so there I was in the pouring rain wrestling with the left-over roofing sheets from my barn, getting them up onto her bathroom roof. In the thunder and lightning I might add.

So now I'm soaking wet and I've run out of dry clothes.