still raining still dreaming

Saturday afternoon and I pulled a muscle in my back which got worse overnight. I was lifting a tiny bit of wood and tweaked it when I turned. As a result of this Jayne was somewhat reluctant for me to go on the shed roof yesterday to place a layer of pondliner to waterproof it - not the single sheet for the turf roof but just to seal it off as a lot of water has been running through into the shed and we need to dry it out. It was sunny yesterday - the first completely dry day for a couple of weeks so the OSB panels were totally dry and just right to place the waterproof membrane.

On our way to the plot we stopped at Tracy's to pick up diesel for the JCB and after loading it I went into the house to see Jayne and Tracy sipping away at some pretty well chilled white wine. Three hours later we left definitely too shaky to climb on to roofs.

So we did it today instead and got heavily midged. Back still a little stiff so Jayne was right anyway. Connected up the water main to a stand pipe for concreting water - just need Scottish Water to pull their finger out and link us to the main.

We have encountered a lot of delays this last week and this is the most recent.

We have had 200% of average July rainfall this last month and it has seriously held us up as we want to get moving with the foundations. It is really bad for momentum to have so much stop go too.