He normally perches on a fencepost but this evening he decided he could get a better view from the roof. Not surprisingly the house martins that had designs on building a nest in our eaves have been put off and fled the scene.

 In the meantime we have been busy building the deck. We ran out of boards because at the last minute we decided to make it bigger, but that will be remedied this week and we hope to be able to enjoy the sun with a barbecue this weekend.