Category Archives: Astronomy

Since I’ve decided I need to get on with the door I thought I’d best look out some timber for the lining and decide what to do about a threshold. I dithered over the latter a fair bit before remembering … Continue reading →

Today started out a bit cloudy, but generally sunny and warm.  Pretty much t-shirt weather, in fact, had the wind been a little less gusty.  Obviously therefore it was time to get some outside jobs done.  Unfortunately heavy rain has … Continue reading →

Weather that started merely unpleasant turned to completely horrible throughout the course of the day, so whilst keeping an eye on the rugby I’ve been finishing off insulating the outside walls of the warm room. The additional insulation I needed … Continue reading →

It’s been another unpleasant weekend weather-wise (pretty much for everyone in the UK and Ireland by the looks of the news), but I eventually forced myself to get outside and do a little work on the observatory. The first job … Continue reading →

I didn’t have much time for work on the observatory this weekend, but I did manage to cut some additional timbers for the frame to support joins in the external cladding where they didn’t end on an existing part of … Continue reading →

I’ve now put together my list of things that need to be done to keep the project moving forward. This is not an exhaustive list, but should get me a fair bit further on. In fact, it’s two lists. The … Continue reading →

There’s not been much progress with the observatory over the last couple of weeks as other jobs have taken priority, but as daylight hours start to extend beyond the working day I’m hoping I can put that to rights soon. … Continue reading →

Snow arrived this weekend, so I wasn’t keen to do much outside. It did at least provide the first load test of the steel roof structure however (aside from me hanging off it when I was constructing it). This is … Continue reading →

The weather this weekend has been quite unpleasant, with rain most of Saturday and high winds (cold ones, too) until sunset on Sunday, but this afternoon I did manage to get just a little done on the observatory, whilst dodging … Continue reading →