Not that much to show, but we're making progress - I think ! Inside it's the stair area that's the tricky bit , with original roof supports being cut out, new ones being shoved in - always a scary business - and last night with a lot of effort , bits of sarking being removed, and whacking with lump hammers and jemmies we (we - I helped!) got two fairly critical joists in. This now means the final support for the roof can go up and the second side of roof can be covered.

Remember the 96 planks I had to chamfer and paint with two layers of fire-proofing? We're down to the last twelve. I did hear some really good programmes on Radio 4 while I was doing it. We tried to burn some of the cut-offs in our chiminier last week and I'm delighted to say they were very grudging to go , so I must have mixed the mixture right!

And hopefully the scaffolder will be along next week - safety is all! and if I'd been wearing a hard hat last night I wouldn't have stuck a nail from the roof in my head as I whizzed up a ladder.