The roof work begins

So, Monday saw the start of re roofing our house. This is how it looked yesterday. The capping tiles are off as are many of the clay tiles. Our builder is sorting out the dips in the roof as he goes. He is fixing chunks of wood to the buckled beams. Our roof will never be totally straight as we cannot afford to have the roof beams replaced. The mess inside has been bad enough doing it this way!
The mice have been evicted at last and this is the first time the roof has had felt!
We will be having grey slate for our new roof to match the Gite barn.
I am looking forward to the pallets of slates arriving and daughter and I plan to turn them into planters. By lining them with black plastic and painting the wood they will look great planted out. It will put more flowers into our garden for our bees.
Lots of clearance work is going on too and it is so lovely to see a garden emerging. It will never be a fancy garden but we can now see across the fields on all sides.
We have friends of daughter and sil staying for nearly two weeks. We have given them use of the Gite    in return for help. They have worked really hard the first two days. It is great to have help like this. It makes sense given we have so few bookings this year.
I am hoping that once the referendum is over more bookings will come in.
Lots of work as always but it feels good to be moving forward.