Up, Up and Away!!

In our beautiful..not balloon but Loft. Vin has been doing some clearing out again up there. he has his blue overalls on and looks like a proper little workman. he has brought down another three bags of bits and pieces including straw!! lord knows how that got there, I'm pretty sure that my dad didn't put that up there so who knowshow long that has been there.
he did find a paper a Daily Mail from 1956 up there which was of course a broadsheet, and seemed to have local news in it as well as general news. There was a story of a mysterious happening in a store in Southport when the bedding/linen had black marks on them. Eventually a sharp eyed storegirl spotted a black and white cat coming through the skylight. it was Bimbo..the mystery solved, it was climbing through and leaving black marks on the bedding. Naughty little Bimbo!
There was also an advertisement for Redi-Cut Rug kits..i remember those, you got a wooden hohandled hooky type thing which you used to pull short lengths of ready cut woll through a canvas backing. You could get patterns and the wool came in hundreds of different colours. i wonder if you can still get them? I must have a google and see.
Very sunny here today, and a really pleasant day, watching a bit of tennis after lunch and it seems it is pouring down at Wimbledon. They have the roof over the centre court, and play is abandoned on the other courts. isn't it odd how two ends of the country can have such opposite weather conditions.
Vin has just come down from the roof and said it is getting too warm up there with the sun on the tiles etc. he's working very well my little handyman. He has just shown me a bag of damp sand which weighs a ton, it's a wonder the ceiling hasn't come down! We are on the coast, and I suppose that is years and years of accumulated sand blowing through the roof tiles. The newer houses which have been built on the sand dunes since the seventies will be absorbing most of that now, we don't seem to get as much these days.
Tonight we are having:
Sausage lattices
Small tin of something saucey.
A bubble and squeak rosti
Mushrooms.