Is it bad? Janâs driving to Leeds this afternoon.
Nah not here anyway, sunshine nowđ
Whereâs your spirit of adventure man?
Rob drank it all at Lopwell.
Hardly a breath of wind here, unusually. Nice sunny day, looking forward to taking the girls out for a walk after the Liverpool game. The forecast predicted 3" - 4" of snow last night, yet not a single flake materialised.
Forecasts here are notoriously unreliable. The general rule of thumb is to read all of the available forecasts then forget them and look out of the window.
Not what it was 25 years ago. Hereâs a blurry picture of me standing on some planks on some trestles which were themselves sitting on a couple of sheets of ply laid on some first floor joists. The floor joists were fastened in place. Nothing else was, really.
You can see a steel ridge beam poked into a one-brick (4.5") deep hole in the house wall. The other end is sitting on the gable wall of the garage-to-be. The gable wall is unbraced - that scaff belonged to my brickie and itâs not in contact with the masonry.
The ridge beam was heavier than I could lift. I could lift one end though. So I did. First up onto the floor joists. Then I slid one end up the wall and into the hole in the house. Then I walked the other end up the gable wall, a step at a time, until it was where you can see it in the pics. If at any stage it had fallen (i.e. I had dropped it or it had slid out of the house wall) heaven knows what would have happened. Still, I didnât and it didnât so I wasnât killed, eh 
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VB
AND the Cavalier survived 
It wasnât as bad as that Jim. I didnât need all those people to hold it together 
. My big worry was the steel coming down. I worked the geometry of the lift out - where the bottom end had to be to make sure the top end didnât come out of the hole in the wall - then âallâ I had to do was to make sure that happened. Which it did. I donât think I did most of the lifting off those trestles. I may just have put those in place for the purposes of the photos.
VB
I think Iâm most impressed with the suitable building attire. Well done
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Snow here this afternoon 
Heard a rumbling noise followed by a crash and the sound of something breaking earlier.
âWhatâs that?â I thought.
Turns out âthatâ was a ridge tile coming off the roof and smashing about half a dozen others on its way down.
Rchmond and Bushy Parks closed as multiple trees blowing over.
Been waiting for my tree surgeon for weeks now , think he might be cancelling us again soon judging by the weather
Sideways snow.
No big bits of trees down, surprising given the wind.
Sunshine/blue sky.
This plus lots of wind