Road Trip
Road Trip
On arrival at the hall after a great night’s sleep, everything looks pretty much as I left it and we’ve got another great day for messing around on a roof. Donald is keen to crack on but there are a few slates which just aren’t fit to go back on where they need to. It’s here where I get a glimpse of Donald’s extensive network as we head to a weigh station at Settle Coal and then a farm in Pen-y-gent, where someone he knows has pulled a barn down recently. We manage to reverse his van onto the fields and go through the slates with a tape measure selecting the best fits before heading back down to the weigh station. It’s another eye opener of how things work in the countryside and paying for things by weight.
We’ve lost a chunk of the day but we get back onto the roof and get that little bit further up the roof before Donald knocks off for the day.
Given I’ve got another 5-6 hours before I’m likely to get some sleep and the render at the front of the building needs removing, I decide to get stuck in and start peeling it from the building. Before I know it, it’s bedtime, my arms and wrists are buzzing from the SDS drill and the whole of the floor in front of the hall is covered with remnants of a 50’s peddle-dash render.