Finally Wind and Weathertight (we hope)

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Having made the most of our weeekend off catching up on sleep etc. We returned to Tombreck on Tuesday. Continued stuffing roof and completed both west and central sections (now 5/6ths done) but ran out of mesh. Then to Manse for birthday bash for Bryn - the usual enjoyable if chaotic melee of music and mayhem. Also farewell to Tasha and Marcus who were departing the following day for London and Sweden respectively.

On Wednesday, Wendy started stuffing and trimming the straw walls on the ground floor (with scissors) and this continued on Thursday - between meetings with Douglas to talk about electrics and John Rennie to discuss floor insulation . meantime Willy kept Hamie company as he drilled holes for posts for balcony and woodshed/veranda


Went to Lawers Hotel for dinner only to meet Ian and a friend called Rab (who had once lived in my home village of Rigside) ,then Katie and Dolan arrived shortly followed by Gordon (the shepherd) and Sandy.
However we were both feeling pretty shattered and a bit flat after the efforts in getting weathertight so left reasonably early and headed back for an early night

Friday Douglas returned and fitted temporary board inside house for electricity next week. Ewan and I finished fitting wooden flashing round large downstairs windows and doors while Wendy continued trimming and stuffing.

Douglas mentioned that the electricity board would need to have access to the mains electricty cable, which we knew was buried in the vicinity of the house, so we started digging for it. A treasure map with "x" marks the spot would be useful.

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Photos

Woolly roof
The west bay of the house complete with its warm fleece

Kitchen and Dining Area
More or less where kitchen table will eventually be

Snow on The Ben
First snow of thwe winter and Andy was up on the top stalking