… of the Puy de Dome as a low cloud sailed quietly past. The Puy is actually 1465 metres so that gives you an indication of how low the cloud was, which also gives you an indication of the weather today.
We woke up at about 07:30 but the weather was far too bad to go out and go a-roofing. By 10:00 it had stopped raining so we set off to Pontaumur to buy the concrete. But despite taking our money they had no concrete in stock so I renegotiated the deal for some money back and 10 sacks of cement.
Terry and I then dragged the old Sankey trailer out from underneath the undergrowth and set off to the nearby quarry for half a ton of sand. The sand cost us 18 Euros and luckily there was about half a ton of gravel still in the trailer from a project from 2003 when I was taken ill and so for a sum much less than the 14 bags of concrete we have enough cement, sand and gravel for about 5 times as much. And it won’t be wasted either.
But that was as far as we got, for the driving rain came back. With the wet, the slippery conditions and the possibility of lightning we decided to call it a day and have the afternoon off. A sensible precaution, methinks.
The weather forecast this weekend is for “better weather”. It would have to be, as it couldn’t get very much worse.
