More visitors

The weather's turned hot again and the roofers have finally returned so no chance of sunbathing or dipping in the pool. 

The Knights arrived with no problem and we sat up talking and drinking into the late [or, rather, early] hours.

Lovely sunset and a few glasses of wine

Wednesday was Lucy's 6th birthday.  So presents had to be opened after breakfast and we took things easy.

After a slow start then went out for lunch. Once Tom had got the filter working and the ladder assembled, the girls played in the pool, despite the noise from the roofers.

Third chimney coming down

Close up!

It's good to see work going ahead so quickly [for once!]

Cement mixer arrived

Heavy rain Thursday held things up on the roof but it cleared up later.  We spent a lot of time just mooching around and had another very late and boozy night.

Tom [my Knight in shining armour] managed to get the adaptor on the gas bottle, so finally after a couple of months, I was able to use the flame thrower which Chris had adapted from functioning to non-functioning in an attempt to save money!!

Friday the Knights headed off for the coast and I watched the roofers start the actual tiling whilst merrily killing weeds with my flame thrower.

Genoise