I'm living on a building site....

..... and I'm definitely not complaining, I've been waiting to write those words for ages!!

Work started today on demolishing another four rooms, so we'll be left with half the number we started with. 'We'll have 9 big rooms instead of 19 small ones.  One of the rooms, pictured below with a ladder at the window, has no door!!  It had a load of old tat in it dating back almost 40 years and it all had to be thrown out of the window and then I was put in charge of - I can't believe it - burning the rubbish.  Oh well it's got to be done.  I reckon that the next time they elect a Pope, they'll invite me to do the smoke signals, I've had so much practice.

There was lots of personal stuff there and it seemed such a shame that it was being chucked onto a fire by a total stranger but I guess if they'd wanted it, they'd have taken it when they left.

View from the caravan door towards the area to be demolished

The roof tiles were removed and put into the raised beds.  At the moment they seem to fill them up but once they've been smashed up and they've settled down a bit they should be fine.  So another step towards our organic garden.   Hooray!

The guys worked steadily all day and it was nice to have some company.  Falling roof tiles caused 2 holes in the soil pipe which goes from the caravan to the septic tank, but that should be a thing of the past very soon, I hope, once the new micro station is installed.  So it's not a disaster.  Seven hours later, thank God, it started to rain heavily so I crawled into the caravan in the hope of a hot shower.  Got a tepid one!

It's difficult to tell from this picture but the roof tiles have all been removed from the 4 rooms, just the rafters remain. 

Despite the steady rain the bonfire continued to burn for hours so I sat in my bedroom watching it, just in case [I'm not sure just in case of what though].

The weather forecast is cold and wet for the next 24 hours, if not I'll be burning wood again! We could do with a decent bit of  heavy rain otherwise the laurels won't get planted til Autumn.  But by 7.30 the rain had stopped.

Kerry's 41 today, I'm gobsmacked, where did the time go?