It is nice to get a few good bright days back again. We woken by the builders again this morning. They are going hammer and tongs. All the ceiling boards are in place and when we came back from Albox this morning, a lorry had delivered about six pallets loads of hollow, elongated, diamond shaped roofing blocks. Goodness knows how much they weigh but they are all on one part of the roof boards and jacks. We keep getting told that ‘they know what they are doing you know’ and they obviously do, but it’s just the thought of it all. On top of the boards, supported by the jacks, the re-enforcement steels join up the all pillar top steels. These roofing blocks seem to then get laid one at a time inside the steels, we presume on some sort of rail. We then presume that they will put boards around the whole thing and pump a load more concrete on to it all. It’s a bit like constructing a mattress I suppose only using concrete.
We are now just going to scrub up in readiness for our Wednesday evening dancing marathon.
Just think: this time last week Elayne and I played tennis, and we are playing again tomorrow (Thursday instead of Wednesday because Allen and Mags are flying back from the UK today) morning. Have we just lived through one hell of a week (Allen and Mags missed it all of course)?