Walking Tuesday: 3.9km
Swimming Tuesday: 1.5km
Walking Wednesday: 5.2km
Walking Thursday: 6.9km
Walking Friday: 3.8km
Swimming Friday: 1.25km
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Sometimes our work projects extend over quite some time. We started repainting the house in June and finished the North wall but really this was just a warm up for the higher south wall and the much higher gable end. And with the summer weather that's where it ended for a time.
So, with the combination of more than one week without visitors and the promise of a settled spell of weather we decided this week to get the brushes, rollers and paint out again. And, for the first time in two years the scaffolding has come out of storage. In the list of things we expected to be doing as a job after stopping work, being a scaffolding rigger was never one of them. Actually, when Barbara asked what someone who put up scaffolding was called I wasn't sure. A scaffolder, a scaffold erector or a rigger? We agreed on rigger.
Here's the gable end scaffolded:
When Gérard last swept our chimney (it's done by pushing the brush down from the top in France rather than from the fireplace as in the UK) he stood on top of the stack and said he could see the sea. I declined Gérard's kind offer to join him standing on the stack so I could see the sea too, as is well known (particularly to Gérard) I'm not good at heights but the view off the scaffold over the garden is quite good:
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