… during the night, it was still 04:00 when I went to bed this morning. I’ve no idea why I’ve been having trouble sleeping this last couple of days. I even managed to raise myself in the middle of the night to visit the beichstuhl as well so I ended up with even less sleep. Perhaps it’s old age – I dunno.

After breakfast I carried on with the website until midday and despite not feeling particularly up to it, I had a really good morning’s work. I’m half-way up to the head of Lac St Jean at the moment.

Outside, I dismantled half of the scaffolding from the uphill end of the house and re-erected it on the downhill side.

Dismantling it was somewhat problematic because the part that remained erect wasn’t particularly stable once the whole of the other bay had been dismantled. It would have been much easier had I had another pair of feet so that I could have erected the downhill side of the scaffolding as I dismantled the uphill side. I’m sure that I bought 8 feet just so that I could do this, but despite an exhaustive search I could only find 7. I’ve no idea what has happened here. I can’t think where that one has gone to.

Anyway, now it’s up, and quite stable too, and I’ve started to glue the top end of the downpipe into position.

Tomorrow, I’ll be drilling the wall for the mounting screws for the downpipe brackets and then I can glue all of that in place. This will be the guttering finished.

There are a few other things that I can do while I’m up there and I can look at all of that tomorrow too. I may as well make the most of having the scaffolding up there because I don’t want to put it un there again.

Not until I can find my missing foot anyway.

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