Today was an important day ...

... in the story of the barn roof for if you look closely at the image just here you will see that the scaffolding is gone.

And not only that either but although you can't see it clearly we have guttering all down the side of the roof too. No downpipes as yet but that's not an issue as I still haven't solved the question of the evacuation of the water. Nevertheless this is progress.

You can also see the wind turbine - it's now in its permanent home at the other end of the barn.

We are also well-advanced in the fabrication of the framework to mount the solar panels down there too. We were well on our way to doing that but we came to a shuddering halt as we couldn't find the three T-brackets that I used to mount the solar panel on the garden fence back in 2007 when Liz came here and that was annoying. But a discovery I did make was the little mains angle-grinder that I bought a while ago. The cordless Ryobi is good enough but you'll be amazed at how quickly it drains the battery. Cutting the pipe with the little mains grinder was no problem.

But now that the scaffolding is down we are going to erect it on the other side of the barn tomorrow and take off the tiles from there. Because of the way that the land slopes around here the other side of the roof is nothing like as high so we don't need as much scaffolding and what we do need will be erected pretty quickly.

Who knows? We may even have this roof done by the weekend.