Water day

 No builders so far this week. We spoke to Jim and we are pleased his knee is improving. Jill says having a painful knee is definately no fun.

Yesterday we did some sorting in th byre ready for a trip to the tip, and moved some bits from the container. Armchairs are now in, Jill managed to get them out. They are surprisingly heavy. Just need to move our sofa through to the new lounge!.

We went to the tip and got some sand and bits from Huws. We also popped to  open and picked u a sweet table for the porch.

On the way back   we were both a bit in need of a cheer up so we went to Sandness. The otter gave more usual views.....

But the Sanderling, turnstones and knot put on a show.

There was a big vessel 'parked' not often we see that at Melby.

 Today started wet and the rain was pouring in through the front door so more bailing out Jill checked on the roof leak. The temporary work Jill did yesterday was making a difference but unfortunately the water is still coming in behind the roof truss.

Just need 2  buckets now! Pretty angry that our first builder should leave us with such a big problem. It was a real rookie mistake not to use flashing around a roof light.

It dried up at lunchtime.so we finished mopping up and Jill cut some wood to put in front of the door. Have used some rubberised tape too and if it dries out tomorrow will add some foam and solastic just for good measure. That's why we need the extension up!

After that Jill headed to the attic to be creative. It's a useful bodge to make it safer getting into the attic and used up the left over hand rail and spindles rescued from the tip. Jill's favourite place

Left the post tall for grabbing and support.

Rob cleaned the cement of the door and cleaned up where the water came in. It's come up pretty well.