We now have a roof!! For today, anyway - turns out there are Problems with the ridge beam such that it has started to sag (a bit and you can't see it till you measure it) and the timber frame blokes are coming tomorrow to fix it. They forgot to put a couple of small but essential walls in to prop it up, so they have to come and Acrow it up from inside then put the walls in, which we hope will solve the problem.

Anyway, it looks very nice.It is finished now but I haven't been up there recently. I've been down below, on the ground floor, doing the airtightnessing - possibly that should be airtighting, airtightening - anyway it means stopping up the gaps. If I get desperate for new material, I'll put a photo of it on the blog but I think that could lose me a lot of viewers on the grounds of getting too boring. After a day's work I've done the kitchen, which is the biggest room.

The staircase is the next exciting thing to happen. This is Good Thing, for me at any rate. R can leap up the small metal ladder we have got in the place where the staircase can be but I am no mountain goat, so getting to the first floor for me means climbing the big ladder attached to the scaffolding outside, to the second lift of the scaffolding walking round the house and then scrambling in an undignified way through a first floor window (north side) and crashing onto the floor, hoping that there are no workmen there to see me. Then back again with whatever I came up to get. The plus side of this is the view from the scaffolding - treetops and fields - and a never-again-to-be-seen close-up of the roof and my little half-finished bird houses.