Category Archives: Astronomy

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 →

But for a foggy start it has been a lovely day here today, allowing me to skip off work for a few hours and get some welding done. So at long last, here we have it. Pretty much all the … Continue reading →

I had hoped to get to the point where the roof frame could be put in place this weekend, but the weather had other ideas and my time to work on the roof was limited to a couple of hours … Continue reading →