Balcony finally fully sealed

 It's Friday so the final update of the week, and another short one as it was a simple day today for the men.

The scaffold, strapped in place

Tying the ladder to the scaffold

Successful contraption

Working on the outer section

Simple in a sense as they spent the day doing the final sealing and tidying around the very tops of the gable end. This involved some very scary looking rope work and contraptions to balance the scaffold on top of another ladder and lash it into place however no one got hurt so no harm, no foul. It did look quite terrifying to me. They only needed to have this in place for the central part of the roof where it is so very high; while the long ladder is plenty long enough it would have had to lean on the glass and that was not something that they wanted to risk. The two outer sections were completed very much more simply and then the men tidied up. Now the only thing to do out there this year is if we get the hooks put up to hang our chairs (and Rosie's is included in that) up for the winter.

A weekend off then next week hopefully landing and library completed before Christmas! Thanks for reading.

Electrics and Stud work

 Welcome back, and to another busy day for me at work, and for the men on the renovation.

Sally covering up the cables

Bekir running the network

More cement work

Bekir on his ladder, after falling off it

I woke early and got a little hobby time before Rosie and Angela were awake, then was at my desk when the men arrived. Bekir did a little electrics work so that Sally could follow behind and cement over the cables and after that Bekir finished running the network cable into the Art Room. Now I just need him to fit a cover over the model railway hole and I'll be able to get in there and clean it before our guest arrives on Friday. The rest of the morning was taken up with me being on calls and the men working away to finish up the electrics and cover over all the cables with cement. Bekir fell down the stairs off this incredibly unsafe ladder; I've no idea why he isn't using the one you can see just at the bottom of the picture as that has a stairs mode that is super secure. Crazy times.

Sally and Halil putting battens on the wall

A grey day

Flowers on pepper plants

The afternoon was Bekir doing more electrics and Sally and Halil with the wooden battens attaching them to the wall which will have my model railway on it. Very very exciting times to see this coming along so well. After work, and that moment couldn't come soon enough today, I spent time with Rosie, we went to see the Little Lady, and had a lovely time outside and then inside. It has been a really gloomy dull miserable day today, but still the flowers grow on our plants. Incredible, this late in the year.

And there goes another day. Thanks for reading, catch you tomorrow.