The roof comes off!

The roofers arrived Wednesday, on time and with all their gear.  After the preliminary greetings [ie, I was in the shower, he said bonjour to Lynne and she replied 'un minute, Madame is just getting dressed'] I went out to meet the boss whose first question, after the usual shoulder shrugging nicotine-fuelled grunting, was 'When does your husband arrive?'.  I told him and then he said that they would be here today but would be spending Thursday and Friday au chantier [at the workshop] and would return Monday.

OK, I thought!

But the two workers carried on all day, despite horrendously hot weather with temperatures in the high 30s, until 5.30

For Chris's info, they took off the tiles, they took off the next layer of wooden struts, they replaced any planks that needed it, they attached new wooden struts and then covered it with tarpaulin - and they managed to do about a quarter of the roof.

So for Chris's benefit, here are some photos