Category Archives: Projects

Construction has slowed somewhat thanks to the weather, but taking advantage of a day when it threatened to rain but turned out to be bluffing, the eastern and northern walls are now covered in cladding, all but for the top … Continue reading →

A bit of a break in the weather (by which I mean “it stopped raining for a while) this afternoon left me an opportunity to get out and do some of the cladding on the observatory. My plan is to … Continue reading →

The weather this weekend was quite wet and windy, but I managed to get out early(-ish 🙂 on Sunday to start fixing the northern gable in place. Everything went quite nicely to plan in terms of rolling the roof over … Continue reading →

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 →