It was hard work, especially as it was yet another blustery day  – not really the conditions to be putting 8ft by 4ft sail boards on the roof – or waterproof material that just blows everywhere and never stays where you want it to. Thank goodness for staple guns, that’s all I can say.

We just need to put the corrugated sheets on, fit the side door, make a window and fit it, build the garage doors and fit them, render the whole thing………so why do i feel as though my work is finished?

The garage is now coming along after I spent a day building blocks and making trusses. We finished the blockwork and put two trusses up on Sunday. I have put breather paper on the gable end and cut the OSB board to go on the gables. We drove into Inverness to buy the OSB board – the nearest Wickes! By the end of the weekend I am hoping to have a roof on.

May has been busy on Gumtree, buying white cement and harling chips at cut prices. All we need now is someone to put the stuff up.

At the moment it is lack of money so I am working hard to earn some so that we can finish. Hence the slow progress.

However, we now have a gate, we have finally swapped over the front door to what we originally specified and the garage grows slowly. We are also actively seeking out someone to put the white-wet-dash on the house. Hopefully the next photos will show something quite different.