January 25th 2020

[M] Well what a way to celebrate Burns' Night! Today, after nearly two weeks of crawling around on the roof getting covered in slate dust, dirt and moss we have finally finished getting the slates off the roof. We estimate there were about 3000 in total which meant pulling out and collecting 6000 nails. Getting them off the roof was one thing but the harder job was getting the slates down from the scaffolding to the ground by lowering them in a bucket and an old Safeway box eight at a time and then stacking them in the garden. We can safely say we are glad to see the back of that job!