I thought that I would post ...

... a pic of the completed stairs on the ground floor. It'll take my mind off the gruesome weather.

I woke up this morning to that weird golden thing in the sky and not a cloud in sight. So I quickly shinned up onto the roof and onto the roof of the old Luton Transit to brush the snow off the solar panels to take advantage of everything.

But I needn't have bothered for 10 minutes later the wind changed, a whole heap of cloud came over and blocked the sky. We had 10mm of rain!

And as I type I have the long-range weather forecast up and every day for the next week is totally overcast with rain forecast. Monday and Tuesday we are promised 15 and 16 degrees. They say Centigrade but I bet it'll be more like Fahrenheit.

So I stayed in and shovelled up tons of rubbish and piled it up elsewhere and I now have a path through the rubble to thse stairs. it's impressive. I also tidied up a few things and sorted out the wood. You can see the door that I bought in the Brico Depot sale. That's for the front - lots of glass to let in the light. Light is at a premium around here.

At lunchtime Francois came round, with a woman in tow. He was amazed at the progress since he last visited here in September. This woman is renovating and she is interested in recycled materials and Francois had told her about my reccycled plastic slates. She was well-impressed.

This afternoon I started to tidy up the verandah which I use as a kitchen. But my heart wasn't in it "No surprise there - it's a cleaning job" ... ed - and at 17:00 I called it a day. And then crashed out up here for an hour. All this work has been taking its toll of me.

Hello

Welcome to the nth version of my blog.

The desertion of my previous blog was brought about by the closure of the service, although I left voluntarily just before the cut-off date. It was in fact the first blogging site that I left voluntarily so I suppose that's something to celebrate.

I'm only going to be here temporarily as once I find a reliable webhost for my websites I'll be embedding my blog in there. That makes much more sense to me.

In the meantime, back to the plot. For those of you who have followed my adventures elsewhere, we finished putting up the scaffolding at home today. One leg went through the roof of the verandah and a lateral support went through the door. We had to knock part of the fence down though to get another lateral through. And once we worked out how the scaffolding went and we put in the diagonals, it wasn't half rigid. I can't think of a purchase I've been more impressed with and it was certainly a good move to buy it.

Tomorrow Terry is going to smash in all of the slates and the rotten wood while I sort out the new wood, the recycled plastic roofing tiles and the insulation. At last I'll be starting to empty the barn that I've been filling up for years and I can't wait.