I am AWAY behind with blogging. What with me and Ju rushing off to Cormwall to look at gardens, then me and Mike off to a wee trade fair in Glasgow, then me losing the password.

But as you see, we have scaffolding! Wonderful stuff - the stairway to heaven! And as a result great progress is being made - especially the long week-end I was away. Both sides of roof are insulated, boarded and waterproofed, and now it's time to order the slates. Inside we now have the room without any joists and things, and now Mike is finishing the framework of the upper porch.

When we were in Glasgow we saw a nice wee bungalow advertised; instead of saying 3 beds and 2 other rooms, it said - 6 flexible apartments. So that's what Mike's building. I did wonder

Slight desaster on Monday night when the easterly gale and driving rain revealed that the old and new don't quite meet! Water streaming down the lovely new chipboard on the house side squeezed it's way through our polythene and dripped all the way down the rafters into the bedroom. All night. So out with the old towels again , bed moving again, and Mr & Mrs Hurst not speaking by morning.Can't be sorted till the insulation arrives, but hopefully no more easterly gales.
Scaffolder is on his way! So we have been told. But it's trauma time for the wisteria

WE definitely have the makings of a room. This is the inside now - to the right you see the floor boards; most of the old sarking has been removed and this morning Mike put in a support for the lower beam that goes through the house and held up this sarking, then it can be removed. Putting up the very hefty cross beam to hold all this was quite an effort ( and involved taking out half the spare bedroom wall) . One more strong upright to hold the central beam, and then that too can be removed and we can wander around one side of our new room.

We still have the horrid mess of another bit of block wall to be removed, then hopefully all the really unpleasant bitties will be over.

No sign of Mr very busy scaffolder from Ardrishaig yet.