… what happened today, can’t you?

Indeed. A house with no tiles and no roof, so we have a tropical storm. Dunno how much rain fell in that 15 minutes but in Liz’s plant bucket there was about 5mm of rain after the plants had had their share, and all the streams around here were raging torrents.

Mind you, it’s not as if there is anything likely to be ruined as first of all I don’t possess anything like that anyway and secondly the house is pretty much empty. In fact it will probably do a lot of good, washing away mice nests and all that kind of thing.

This morning though, Terry and I went into Montlucon for the rest of the material. And wise move too. Being financially disadvantaged as I am, I set my mind on just one roof window and the most basic of those – costing 80-odd Euros. “Where are the cheap roof windows?” I asked the salesman. “Over there on that pallet” he replied, pointing at some, complete with all the fittings and looking quite good quality on sale “special offer” at 69 Euros. So I’m now back to two windows, and also two for the barn. And Terry got four for his barn.

Tons of wood (chevrons as well as waterproof plywood) and all kinds of stuff. I reckon I paid in all about 1500 Euros which has punched a big hole in my budget.

But not to worry because all that remains to buy are the chimney lining and the guttering, and that will be that. Everything for the barn roof is here.

So if tomorrow is nice and dry we’ll start changing the chevrons and then fitting the insulation. And if there is a thunderstorm you’ll probably find two carbonised masses stuck to the scaffolding and neither Terry nor yours truly will be blogging tomorrow night.

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