Rain stops play

We're at a bit of a standstill with the workshop at the moment because of the relentless rain  which is a rather frustrating.  We have put the sheets of OSB (similar to chipboard, but made with bigger bits - I think it stands for Orientated Strand Board) on the outside and wrapped it all in nice green breather membrane.  Next to go on the outside is battens and then the wany-edged boards.  The wany-edge should be delivered at the end of this week.  On Friday we went over to Whitchurch (about 15 miles away) to a roofing and cladding firm to sort out what to put on the roof and, more importantly, how to do it.  Oh, the chap there was so helpful and explained it all to us and gave us loads of tips and then worked out exactly what we needed.   So, I can throughly recommend SLE Cladding Ltd if you are ever doing anything similar - they deliver all over the country!  We are going for black Onduline which is a corrugated sheet which doesn't produce condensation.  We are having 'rooflights' made of clear plastic which has the same wiggles as the Onduline so they fit together well.  Because the rest of the roof is having insulation and then board underneath it, we will have to make a sort of box under the clear bits and then put a flat piece of clear polycarbonate sheet under that so it still lets the light through, but doesn't attract too much condensation.  Once we had sorted out quantities, etc, we got onto when it could be delivered and our helpful chap started to look a bit doubtful and worried when we said we needed it fairly soon - they are obviously busy.  He went off to check and came back to ask if we'd be in later in the day!  So, it arrived about three hours after we got home and, once again, the delivery chap was really helpful with tips and advice.  It was a real pleasure dealing with them all and so much better than some anonymous oiks at an internet firm. 

Before winter set in!

Bob has made the frame for the big, south-facing window.  The glass for this is one of the pieces we ordered for the end bedroom, but which came with the wrong colour spacers round the edge.  The glass suppliers didn't want it back and so we thought we'd be silly not to use it.  The other, smaller, window frame is one of the ready made oak frames we bought at an auction ages ago - two for £20 which included all the iron catches and hinges, what a bargain!

May I introduce Matty Tomatter.  He grew on our hanging
basket tomato plant and just had too much character to end
up in a salad!