King George commands and we obey, over the hills and far away

An eventful week. The men arrived to frame the roof on Sunday evening and work started on Monday after a period for briefing and sorting materials and tools. The team were good men and they worked hard but they were roofers not framers. The roof for the cabin is complicated and challenging and requires an experienced framing team, which Sean's men are not. By Thursday it was clear that they were struggling and matters were not helped by not having a good set of drawings to work from and a lack of supervision. At close of play on Thursday it was decided that the task was too much for them and they were pulled off the job. A new framing team is being engaged and when they have put the frame in place I hope that Sean's men will come back to do what they do best, which is put the metal roofing on.

This shot gives you some idea of how the roof will look once it is framed and sheeted.

The roof is complicated and none of the angles or lengths are the same anywhere on the roof. It is difficult and hard work.

The interfaces between main roof and dormers will be interesting features of the roof.

The dormers, small and large, caused most of the problems for Sean's team.

While all this was going on Dwayne and I continued with support work, sheeting the second bedroom wall above the kitchen, putting in windows that we won't have access to when the deck covering is in place and carrying on with the stone work around the garage and the front of the cabin. Kevin was ill for a couple of days (hence the lack of supervision) and he also got on with preparing the railings for the deck. I have also done some research for purchasing garage doors and asked for quotes for installing the septic, water and electrical lines to the cabin. It was a busy week and next week will be the same.

The second bedroom outside wall sheeted and windows installed ready for siding that will have to be in place before the cover/roof can be put over the deck outside the kitchen.

Dwayne did stirling work with the stones.

All the walls have been covered in stone.

It just remains now for grouting to be put in and a final clean and polish.

The first railings delivered from the workshop, waiting to be put together with spindles and posts.

The master bedroom window in place, again, so the deck cover/roof can go on. The same is true of the bathroom window which is in but, I forgot to take a photo. Looks good though, with frosted glass.

The week ended on a high note with a visit from Stuart Doyle (651 Sqn 1984 - 87), his wife Janet and their daughter Jenny. It was great see them. They live and work in Alberta, northwest of Edmonton. We had a few laughs and reminisced about the good old days and colleagues alive and dead. They were on good form, good health and I hope to see them again before too long. Stuart was Light Infantry before he joined the Air Corps, hence the title of this week's posting - the theme tune from the Sharp series on TV.

Janet, Stuart and Jenny Doyle.