{"id":773,"date":"2010-08-12T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=773"},"modified":"2016-06-29T13:14:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T13:14:39","slug":"i-shant-be-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 12th August 2010 – I shan’t be sorry …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to see the back of this roof. The rainstorm that we were promised for today never arrived and so we were up there all day. Well, Terry and Simon were mostly.\u00a0I was out for some of the morning looking for supplies. And you can’t believe that a builders’ merchant would have no 40×27 laths in stock, and not expect any more until September. I had a little bit of a hunt to track some of them down after that.<\/p>\n

But once I returned and we carried on with our production line method of roof-building, we made enormous progress as you can see in the photo below.<\/p>\n

\"roofing<\/a> We’ve attached chevrons to the top crossbeam that we fitted to the house wall a couple of days ago, and you can see them fitted to the other crossbeam that we embedded in the cement on the top of the wall that we built up previously.<\/p>\n

And now it’s all looking thoroughly impressive. I reckon that another 10 working days or so might see the job completely finished. And I shan’t be sorry for a moment.
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So when we knocked off this evening I had to move Caliburn, and Simon got into his van and piddled off – and so did Terry – leaving me to put the tarpaulin on all on my own. Luckily Terry remembered and came back to help, otherwise it would have been embarrassing.<\/p>\n

Once everyone had cleared off I took my life in my hands and moved the methane digester that had been by the barn. And once I had manhandled … "PERSONhandled" – ed<\/em> … it down to the compost bin that I built the other day I tipped it all in and covered it with wood ash. <\/p>\n

That’s the end of my experiments with the methane digester for now and I’m not sorry about that either. I can sit out on my terrace now.<\/p>\n

After that I came in and crashed out again. I’m totally whacked. I’m not as young as I was and it’s not so very encouraging.<\/p>\n

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