
A house needs a good hat and boots, and today the roofers finished the new hat on the gate lodge. The Welsh slate looks very smart with its lozenge shaped ornamental courses and most importantly it's watertight. The brickies can hopefully start the stonework in the next few days so I can have a finished shell to work on when I return from America in September. The realisation that I have to start Autumn planning now is a bit of a shock though...what happened to our summer?