![\"pointing](\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1206\/1206039.jpg\")
<\/a>Well, it’s either pointing or jointing, one or the other, whichever takes your fancy. <\/p>\nNow that I have some sand here I was able to mix up some lime mortar and so I spent much of the afternoon on the roof of the lean-to filling the joint between the new lean-to roof and the stone wall of the side of the house. <\/p>\n
There were a few big gaps too, but I put some plastic sheeting down – the type with nylon reinforcement – and filled over that.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow I’ll need to put a second coat on there, as well as putting some rubberised paint over one or two of the galvanised nail-heads that are exposed. And that will be the roof finished.
<\/p>\n
And so will I be too!<\/p>\n
The rendering on that wall went, of course, up to the old wooden chevrons that fell off a long time ago. I’ve put stronger timbers on the roof and so the chevrons are higher up the wall, if you know what I mean. <\/p>\n I infilled the gap with a load of brick ends, stones and so on but the rendering still needed to be brought up by about 30 cms, as well as a few cracks making good, and that’s what I was doing until I noticed the time.<\/p>\n Yes, 19:10. 10 minutes after knocking-off time. You can tell how much I was enjoying myself.<\/p>\n This will also need finishing off tomorrow and when it’s all dry I can treat all the new woodwork. Once that’s been attended to I can push on and build up the side wall to the roof beam, leaving of course a space for a window (if I remember – not like I did for the roof). <\/p>\n The aim from there on is to put a balcony there at the front, so that I can enjoy whatever view I might have. But that’s something of a longer-term project.<\/p>\n This morning though, I was working on a few web pages of my voyage to Canada just now. There are three days’ worth, namely <\/p>\n You may not think too much of the content, especially Day Two, because what with me being in an airport terminal or three I let loose some pretty good and pretty explosive rants. You ought to know just how stressed out I become in airport terminals. <\/p>\n It’s a good job that I always travel alone.<\/p>\n You might think that when I calm down and review everything that I write, I would moderate many of my comments (I dictate the events of my voyages onto a dictaphone as they are happening or immediately thereafter) but I won’t ever do that. <\/p>\n The whole point of what I do with the rubbish that I churn out is to capture the excitement of the moment. The stress and tension is all part of the excitement and there wouldn’t be any point in churning out anything that has been edited.<\/p>\n<\/a>For the rest of the afternoon I cemented up the joint in the outside wall. <\/p>\n
… “what to?” – ed.<\/i>
<\/p>\n\n