A shitty day all round

Today has been pretty up and down, all things considered. It started with Rosie completely refusing to sleep last night which wrecked both our evenings for relaxing purposes and then, well, I'll just say that I've decided against putting some pictures up that would have turned stomachs...

Before the cleaning, the least disgusting picture

Butterfly emerging

Planks going on

A bit further along

Measuring for bolts

The problem was with the toilets and specifically the drainage. We had a full reservoir but of fluids, and these were not draining how they were supposed to, down to the grey water. To cut a long story short I spent the morning emptying this by hand, then Bekir helped me to extract the reservoir to the humanure point so I could continue cleaning it. This was not very pleasant really but it had to be done. Other than helping me Bekir was up on the balcony putting the final bolts into the wooden ribs, and also helping Sally and Halil with the main roofing work. Progress there was good.

Planks progress to the centre

End of day state

Final boards set to dry

Looking great indeed

While pottering around getting stressed about the toilet I noticed that Titan the Spider was busy spinning up its lunch so I got a video to share. Amazing and huge spider; anyone can identify it? The rest of the day was taken up with lots of roofing, and after Rosie's nap finished Bekir came down and we refitted the reservoir, lifted slightly to aid draining. Fingers crossed we'll have more success this time round. They worked really hard to try and get all the planks up but missed out by a couple of courses however we're not far off now at all.

Rosie watches the sheep

Sunshine and clouds

The evening involved lots of going outside with Rosie and getting her tired before bed, while watching the sheep and the cows going past which she loves. It has been the first day for ages that it hasn't tipped it down with rain which was great; hopefully that run continues. It did seem to threaten a bit but that blew past.

So it's the weekend - see you Monday I hope.