Since my last post I've put up the rest of the tarpaulins I have to hand and one of the ones already up has ripped in two, but that wasn't too unexpected.

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It was quite windy yesterday (Thursday) so I went up to the site briefly this afternoon to see how the tarpaulins had got on. Mostly OK.

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I've made quite a few mistakes building this house (not to mention finding a lot of things I'd do differently in hindsight) but I think the worst has been thinking I'll get the roof covered soon then not doing so.

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As previously noted, I'd got most of the easy bits of the east-gable cladding done by the end of August but it still took me most of September to finish off the lower part.

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Here's how I've done the board-on-board cladding on the gable ends of the house.

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I don't suppose I'm the only person to have found 2020 pretty frustrating so far.

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Today has been a bit frustrating and nicely encapsulates how the year as a whole has gone so far.

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Unlike more southern bits of Britain, the northern part of Scotland hasn't had exceptional short-term quantities of wind or rain this winter but the wind and rain has been rather unrelenting; there have mostly been only a few isolated dry days.

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After getting the roof membrane put on early in October I was fairly busy for the rest of the month running around with minor things. November has been distinctly quieter.

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The house is now a lot less leaky than it was at the end of last week.

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