At long last the wood for the outside has arrived and Mike is already up there whacking it onto the outside of the building. I bet you never thought it was going to end up looking like a cross between a fish shed and a log cabin. But it actually looks terrific so far and rather than the huge stone edifice originally planned will look much more interesting. Trials with the facing on the shed we built at the end of the village hall show that with drying out and a bit of weathering the wood just looks better and better.

We had hoped for Carradale trees but I'm afraid the nearest we could get was Loch Lomond trees - sustainable wood from the National Park. So lots of progress and while he is fitting the bits in place he might solve the problem of how to build the stairs.

We must thank all the many people on Sunday afternoon who stopped to give him advice.