And it’s hardly surprising. Terry was round early and we got on the roof and carried on slating. This required some intricate work around the roof windows and I surprised myself by being prepared for such an eventuality with some stainless steel screws and silicone-backed washers.
After lunch we were back up there to carry on but by now it was 35 degrees and everything on the roof was so hot that it was agonising to pick anything up. No use in working so at 14:30 we called it a day.
Terry went home to his good lady and I took a book and a drink into the comfort and safety of the water room. Once the sun moved from out of direct line with the roof I got back up on the scaffolding and painted the underneath of the eaves with xylophrene, a product that protects wood against dry rot, wet rot and nasty little pests (that’ll stop members of OUSA’s Executive Committee visiting me) and then with some of the brown wood preservative.
During all of this I had a visit from Tijas and his mum and so a guided tour was organised.
After all of that I was exhausted and it took me all of my best efforts to cook some food. I’m going to have to find myself a willing assistant for that kind of thing.
In other news, you simply cannot believe how craven the UK has become. Refusing to disclose the torture undergone by a British subject by the Americans in Cuba, on the grounds that the USA won’t share any more secrets with the Brits. Terry and I had a chat the other day about how pathetic the UK is becoming. Most Brits believe that it is still a significant world power yet as these events go to show, the UK is nothing more than an insignificant offshore island and a mere puppet of Great Satan. HIgh time all of the Brits grew up and had a good look around them. But with 24-hour drinking and 500 channels on the TV all showing “Corrie” and Big Bother, it just goes to prove that 99% of the population of the UK is totally brain-dead.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was all about bread and circuses, and I don’t see much difference.
I agree totally that the liberal left wing kiss-my-criminal-arse supporters have ruined the country. They have made it impossible to defend onself against crime and criminals in case the poor little criminal gets his clothing crumpled by the victim he’s currently beating the shit out of. The penalties for victims exceed the sentences handed down to criminals in UK courts. Because of this, the whole UK population has just given up. In many ways the UK population are experiencing the bad aspects of communism. They are as afraid of the police as of the criminals. They are as afraid of their government as they are of being mugged. Given that they can be whisked off the street, arrested and interned without trial for up to 3 months with the opportunity of being re-arrested and re-interned when they step onto the street again, is there any wonder they have given up?
The only thing the UK population can do is sit at home, watch television or go and get drunk to blot out the horribleness of the UK.
Not all of us have given up, but with the major parties all singing from the same hymn sheet and all trying to stretch the law/rules to suit their own personal agendas rather doing what is right and decent for the country, there’s not a lot you can do except keep voting for the best of a bad bunch. My prediction for the upcoming election is that labour will get a good spanking, but since it lets the Cons in again we’ll be no better off in practice.
Keep it up, Krys. It’s a shame that there is only just the 1% of you though.
Those who haven’t given up might just as well. There’s no difference between the parties. They’ve all been taken over by the same group. I wonder who’s running Britain – the parties cannot all have decided that there is only one way.