… early retirement, this morning I was up with the cock.
But that’s more than enough about my personal habits.
I was up quite early and when Liz phoned me to make sure that I was awake, I was already tucking into breakfast.
At Radio Tartasse in Marcillat we did our programmes for the month of November and after a coffee together I came back home.
Working on the website again followed by lunch, and then I took some more roofing sheets off the lean-to and replaced them with a tarp. I also put something underneath the floor of the upper part of the lean-to to prevent any water that might infiltrate from falling on the washing machine that’s underneath.
After all of that I put up the ladder and started on chiselling out the old mortar at the top of the house wall.
However I wasn’t up there for too long. The wind sprang up again quite violently and then we had a huge black weather front that dumped 5 mms of rain everywhere. That wasn’t very good, and I left the wall to itself with all of that, thinking to myself what a good idea it was to protect the washing machine like that.
What I did instead was to go inside the lean-to and point some more of the inside of the wall that I had built up a short while ago.
It needs to be done some time or other and there’s no time like the present. Having something to do under cover when the weather is bad outside is always handy.
If you’ve looked at some of the earlier photos, like this one for example you’ll see the difference in this pic, particularly on the left side of the wall. You might have also noticed a hole in the wall as well in the left side of the back wall. That’s gone too now, all filled up with stones and properly cemented in.
And that was something that I was keen to do, especially with winter on the way. I don’t want the frost to get into it any more than it already has done
Tonight I finished off Liz’s vegan casserole and had some of her vegan chocolate cake. Isn’t it nice to have good friends?
