Wow! Since the 1st of May what a change there has been. It has suddenly become warmer and sunny!The bank holiday weekend was very busy. Daithi and his brother, Cian, spent most of it on the roof puting up new slates on the roof. The two large sides are done now; only the rear of the roof to go. The rear is the most complicated to do but it is smaller so hopefully it should be done soon. The slates arrived on the friday and our neighbour farmer helped move the palettes with his fork lift JCB. Conor was impressed!
The slates came from India, I think, and they are a lovely blue colour. The only problem was that they had a tendency to shatter when they were being nailed to the batons. Daithi was ready to throw in the towel after the first day but then moved on to screwing them down. When the screws ran out they moved back to nailing them again with better results. Needless to say they were so tired by the end of the weekend.The May bank holiday always turns out to be a milestone weekend. Two years ago, Daithi and some polish colleagues stripped the house out completely. Last year the roof came down. This year the slates go on the roof. Hopefully the June bank holiday will be as productive. Back to the windows now!
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