June 28

BG 10th Anniversary
A little weather window appeared... so we went up to the Lakes for a couple of days. Joc's in between chemo sessions so is feeling OK and I've got a broken toe (rolled a concrete beam onto it - silly I know), so a little hobbling and strolling up some minor lumps was in order. We really had to go: it was the 10th anniversary of Joc's successful Bob Graham Round on June 11th.

 

Looking across to High Stile and Red Pike with Buttermere beneath. 

 Buttermere shore.

 Bangers on the BBQ back at campsite. Hey! Where's the beer?

Building

Meanwhile back at the building project, we've been doing some preliminary work on the new roof for the other half of the house. Ceilings down on 1st floor and we had Steve and JD round to help us with the chimney stacks. We took these down as they were unsafe and putting the new roof on will be a lot easier without them. Took the best part of the day to get them down: Joc was on road partol, me on the demolition, JD getting them down to Steve and then Joc and Steve into the skip. Skip guy had a massive wheelie getting the 6 cubes of hardcore on board! 

 Next comes the trial of measuring up for the new roof trusses. We'll have to bring the walls down by around 150mm, replace the lintels over the 2 openings and block up one opening. We really need to get the old roof off and the new one on sharpish, as we can't afford to get the interior wall between this part of the house and the completed part too wet, or it will ruin all our good work on the other half.

June 23rd

 A rarely seen view of the back of our project house. The odd hut shaped affair is known as 'The Shop'. Allegedly, the women that lived here sold things from here to the local community. Crisps and 'pop' the 92 year old next door tells us. This had to come down as the scaffolding needs to go here for work on the roof of this part of the house.

 Just before putting the ridge tiles on the garage roof. The view down the garden to where we are living now. 

The garage is now finished until late autumn when we clad it with larch. The larch can't be added yet as the weather is too warm and dry (Ha!). We can clad the extension and north elevation of the old part of the house at the same time too. 

June 6th

Some great weather over the last few days made a trip to the Brecon Beacons essential. The photo above is of Bannau Sir Gaer in the far western area with  Llyn y Fan Fach in the distance.

Joc looking over the drop from Fan Hir down to some lovely running terrain. We used the superb 3 day weather window to finally tick off pegging the remaining checkpoints.