Category Archives: Observatory

A little more progress yesterday evening… I’d measured up for the north-east gable once, but when I came to check the measurements over they clearly couldn’t be right. The pitch of the roof wasn’t anywhere near the same as the … Continue reading →

Today may be something of an event. I actually achieved what I set out to achieve on the observatory today 🙂 To be fair, it wasn’t an awful lot. Just before the Sun set I remembered that I needed to … Continue reading →

Despite a whole day working on the observatory I don’t feel as though I’ve achieved much today. The days are getting so much shorter however. I came in for lunch today and realised that by the time we’d finished eating … Continue reading →

With the roof keeping the rain off the top, I need to stop it getting in the sides as well before I can think about putting down the floor (and there are a couple of other things besides that need … Continue reading →

It’s been a slow four weeks since my last post, mostly because of the virus that my daughter kindly shared with me. It has left both of us feeling quite exhausted. However, I have managed to make a little progress … Continue reading →

Oh, what dreams I had! I thought this weekend might be the weekend when I finally got the roof onto the observatory. Sadly the weather had other ideas 🙁 I went out on Saturday morning to paint the bare steel … Continue reading →

The weather has suddenly turned quite cold as the wind has moved around to the north, meaning there’s little I can do at the moment. I did however take the opportunity to finish screwing down the rails for the roof … Continue reading →

I ordered my EPDM in a single hefty 40kg piece as the width I needed for the warm room roof was very close to the length I needed for the roll-off roof, so the first (slightly scary) job for today … Continue reading →

What a gorgeous day! It was definitely shorts and t-shirt weather by the time I went out to start work on the observatory. The insects were clearly making the most of things too. I think I saw more wasps today … Continue reading →

Not a good weekend weather-wise here thanks to “Storm Callum”, but nowhere near as bad as it seems to have been a few tens of miles north on the other side of the Severn Estuary, so I shan’t be complaining … Continue reading →