Today was exciting.

I picked the first courgette out of the garden and made myself a delicious courgette and lentil curry.  It was magnificent, and there's enough left over for 2 more days (in the fridge).

I also went in search of strawberries as there were quite a few when I last looked, but it seems that mildew has done for most of those and there were only two left. And they were delicious too.

This morning we were back on the roof. One side is finished, complete with edging tiles all in place and properly cemented in. But we did have a problem - the tiles are 40cm so I dunno what possessed someone to buy 43cm edging tiles. They don't fit properly! Still, we managed to get them to look very nice by using an aluminium straight-edge and an angle-grinder but it would have looked nicer with 40cm edgings.

This afternoon we took down the scaffolding and put it up around the other side of the house. But that is on a slope and, like the Irish expedition to climb Mount Everest, we ran out of scaffolding. We'll have to finish that tomorrow and then strip the roof.

After Terry left I went home and did something else that I was meaning to do for quite a while. Keen readers of these outpourings in one of their many previous forms (it was after the Xoom blog but before the Yahoo one - might have been the Bravenet one) will remember that back in 2002 I was repairing a collapsed outbuilding when I collapsed, and it was never finished. But that is where the composting toilet is and where the washroom will be and I'm fed up of being rained upon. I can't refit the roof just yet but I can put in the floor at the first floor level so I made a start on that. At least I won't get p155ed on now when I'm riding the porcelain horse.

But, quite strangely, I've been hearing some bizarre noises in the verandah just recently and as I was coming back from this roof I heard a similar noise coming from the barn. I stuck my head inside just in time to see a flaming huge hedgehog drag a plastic bag full of wire rope off into one of the deepest and darkest recesses.

What is all that about?

The amount of stuff that I can't find in that barn that I know full well is there - there's probably a group of hedgehogs about to open a hardware store somewhere in the vicinity. I bet they will be doing deliveries too - using a SatNav that they will have acquired from somewhere.