Rain Rain Rain Rain Rain

We’ve sort of been rained off, though we did persevere for a while through it. It just turns into such a morass up there in prolonged rain, because the soil is just 200 years’ worth of cultivation and leaf-fall. It’ll grow incredible vegetables, but it’s a pain in the tookus for walking over. As soon as it’s warranted, I’ll be paving a path in stone to and from the front door of this house.

Haven’t got any pictures, I’m afraid, though Alec took a few and I’ll post them later when he sends them. We did some compression, which involves putting ratchet straps round the walls, over top plate and below floor, and crunching it all down as hard as you can until it’s all uniformly squashed, and then nailing bits of wood in place to hold it there. It’s kind of amazing how much it does compress, but it leaves me confident that it won’t be settling any more after we move in.

We also borrowed some electricity from Harry and Peggy (the neighbours down the hill who used to run the flower nursery on the site) and did some wall-shaving with Rae’s alligator saw. It’s a little soul destroying at first, as you run over and over it and it seems to just pick out more bits with every pass, but actually, having got halfway along the wall and looked at the two sides in comparison, the shaved half did look really tidy and flat compared to the hairy half.

Anyway, we’ve given up for the first half of this week, as it’s just forecast to tip it down and blow it around incessently until Wednesday night. So we’ll head over there Thursday morning and hope that the whole place hasn’t blown away or disappeared under a mudslide.

Sigh.

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