Friday, August 20, 2010

There's no photo this evening, people.

The truth is that I was rather carried away with things and ran out of time.

It was 19:42 in fact when I knocked off. And that was after an early start too. Terry rang me as usual only today it was to St Gervais to meet up, and then off to Blot to rescue the scaffolding. And was it heck dismantled - the people who had hired it were still using it. So we turfed them off, dismantled it and then loaded up the vans. Back to Terry's to unload and then it was lunchtime already. But at least moving the scaffolding in two vans was a workable option after all of the excitement with the trailers we have been using.

This afternoon I was labouring for Terry who was on the roof and for Simon who was building framework and fitting plasterboards in the bathroom. It's a good job that I have a split personality so that both of me can manage with tasks like this.

And we didn't finish there until 17:30 either, and with a full bucket-load of mortar I set off to attack my wall. It took ages of course, much of which time was spent hunting suitable rocks, but half of that wall has now been built up to the level of the chevrons, which is exciting news. A nice bucket of sloppy liquid gravelly concrete went on there a treat. For that half of the wall it's now mostly a case of infilling with whatever rocks I can find and then concreting them into position.

And that took me until 19:42, as I said. And when I've been working like that I don't feel like much else. But tomorrow is another day - in fact, it's POETS day.

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