April 5th

Really looking forward to today- all the rain over the last few days has created a large blister above the stairwell I'm dying to pop! We devised a game plan of how we were going to let it flow out the front door via a tarpaulin supported to direct it the right way...however, I pop out to get tools and come back to find Dad n Mick trying to drain it...half a bucket a time- Boring!! not to mention long winded, and guess who's the sap having to run through the house to empty the buckets whilst getting yelled at to hurry up? hmmm this isn't working- next idea- to use a spare soil pipe to drain it out through the front door. This proceure resulted in everyone getting soaked and minimal water entering pipe. £rd plan ( the original one) worked a charm. I sliced the polythene, holding the top of the tarpaulin while dad n mick held it lower down guiding it safely out in record time. Then we found time to build upstairs internal walls whilst the scaffolders built our next level up.