I've had a TV on in here this evening .

Even though I keep on telling people that I don't have one, there is one here in the corner. And even though I keep on telling people that I don't watch it, I did today.

But it's not an ordinary TV. Dave who follows this blog (are you over there or over here, mate?) will remember it because I was with him at Hexham market when I bought it. It's a little portable TV that works off 12-volts and what is so important about it is that it has a built-in VHS player. It cost me all of, would you believe, £15.

Now I have tons of VHS videos stretching back for almost 30 years and for the last heaven-knows how long I've been looking for a 12-volt player to watch them on, so this TV thingy was the answer. And when I was in Brussels back in April I brought some of my cassettes back here. Tonight I sat back and watched The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

Mind you, the reason why I spent the evening doing just that was because once again I'm worn out. We have now formally finished the roof and it doesn't half look impressive as you can see.

The part from the right of the roof light on the main roof has been stripped, extended and refitted - and the chimney has been repointed. And then the lean-to, which had a flat roof, now has a pent roof - we raised that up at the back and fitted new tiles.

All in all we can be well-pleased with this. In  fact our stonework is magnificent!

There is some pointing that needs doing on the side wall of the house. Some of the stones are quite loose and it might be that one might fall out and drop on the roof that we have done. I'm not sure how we are going to point it though - I'm not standing on a ladder that's canting right over the lean'to onto the side wall of the house.

As usual there was some mix left and so I added wome water and a huge bucket-full of gravel and then tipped it into my wall. You can see how much the wall has grown by just looking at this pic and comparing it with the earlier ones.

There's still quite a bit to do yet and it's going to need pointing when the levels have been built back up, but it's still impressive.

And after a shower (summer is back again) I came up here and watched a video. And why not? It's the weekend. Shopping tomorrow, relaxing on Sunday and then what may well be the final week at Lieneke's as we get cracking on the bathroom. That shouldn't take long and then I will be back working properly on here again.

And about time too. I have tons of work that needs doing.