Working to remove the mud from the lawns as Steve helped Dave put up long beams that spanned the boatshed as Alan was away today. After Steve helped me finish moving the mud, I paid off my helpers and then started the long journey home
I was nearing the end of a tiring week and still had a large section of mud to lift off of the lawn and we were to be without the assistance of Alan Gidding away working at Wroxham Barns. Steve helped David put up the long beam section atop the posts but the two of them had forgotten the cantilever of the roof forward and I had to put them straight. They also completed a section of the wall plate and finished by carrying the large beams up that span the boatshed the final effect of which was quite dramatic.
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I spent most of the day digging away at that mud again and building up the rear of the thatched garage and then Steven came over to help me in the evening and we managed to finish the job. I called Diana to find out whether she wanted me home before bed-time dirty or to arrive later bathed and she gave me the order of the bath! And so I had paid off my helpers for the second week and we had made good progress again compared with my expectations. The journey home seemed slow and difficult in the dark with all the headlights, but I got there in the end and found Diana still up so, after her making me a drink, we both went to bed.