still raining still dreaming reprise

Jayne and I often compete over being at momentous gigs but it was she who saw Mr Hendrix at the Isle of Wight 40 years and a few weeks ago and not me.

My equivalent moment was being at the Brighton Dome for the first date of Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon tour.

We are now firmly in the 'back end' as oncoming winter is known hereabouts. The weather, as predicted, is mostly wet. We had flash floods last week which washed out the Long and Winding Road just by Muasdale (yes it is the road McCartney wrote the eponymous song about) and it is

raining hard almost every other day. We are almost reconciled to not finishing the ground works before Christmas unless there is a long dry spell.

When we went down the plot on Thursday we found the trenches we had concreted on Tuesday more like the 18th at Celtic Manor today.

Spent most of the day in the JCB digging out new drains to stop water running through the plot

By the weekend and after a long pumping out session we had the trenches dry, though the ground is not good enough to carry on concreting. We have not been able to get more concreting finished since due to day job commitments. We have got eight sides of the large roundhouse shuttered - six completed plus the linking corridor so its all taking shape. So we are about half way through laying footings even if it doesn't look like it from the pictures.