{"id":787,"date":"2010-07-29T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=787"},"modified":"2016-06-28T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T14:45:51","slug":"today-was-exciting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 29th July 2010 – Today was exciting."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"courgette<\/a>This evening I picked the first courgette out of the garden and made myself a delicious courgette and lentil curry. It was magnificent, and furthermore there’s enough left over – and stored in the fridge – for 2 more days<\/p>\n

I also went in search of strawberries as there were quite a few when I last looked, but it seems that mildew has done for most of those and there were only two left. And they were delicious too.
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\"roofing<\/a>This morning we were back on the roof. One side is finished, complete with edging tiles all in place and properly cemented in.<\/p>\n

We did however have a problem – the roofing tiles are 40cm so I dunno what possessed someone to buy 43cm edging tiles. Because of that, they don’t fit properly! <\/p>\n

Still, we managed to get them to look very nice by using an aluminium straight-edge and an angle-grinder but it would have looked nicer with 40cm edgings.
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\"kwikstage<\/a>Now that we’ve done all of that, this afternoon we took down the scaffolding and put it up around the other side of the house. But that is on a slope and, like the Irish expedition to climb Mount Everest, we ran out of scaffolding. <\/p>\n

We’ll have to finish off the other side of the edging tomorrow, and then re-position all of this scaffolding and then start to strip the roof.
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\"roof<\/a>After Terry left I went home and did something else that I was meaning to do for quite a while – years in fact. Keen readers of these outpourings in one of their many previous forms (it was after the Xoom blog but before the Yahoo one – might have been the Bravenet one) will remember that back in 2002 I was repairing a collapsed outbuilding when I collapsed, and it was never finished. But that is where the composting toilet is and where the washroom will be and I’m fed up of being rained upon. I can’t refit the roof just yet but I can put in the floor at the first floor level so I made a start on that. At least I won’t get p155ed on now when I’m riding the porcelain horse.
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But, quite strangely, I’ve been hearing some bizarre noises in the verandah just recently and as I was coming back from this roof I heard a similar noise coming from the barn. I stuck my head inside just in time to see a flaming huge hedgehog drag a plastic bag full of wire rope off into one of the deepest and darkest recesses.<\/p>\n

What is all that about?<\/p>\n

The amount of stuff that I can’t find in that barn that I know full well is there – there’s probably a group of hedgehogs about to open a hardware store somewhere in the vicinity. I bet they will be doing deliveries too – using a SatNav that they will have acquired from somewhere.<\/p>\n

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