Up on the roof...

[bunn]

We have some scaffolding on our house at the moment.  I have never previously had reason to inspect scaffolding in anything but the most cursory way, but as this is on our house, I got to go up the ladder and prance about on the plank platform.  I love it!  It's brilliant!  It's like having a balcony on the top of your house! The roof tiles are all

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[bunn]

I'm guessing that those tiles were whatever was cheapest in about 1988 (house was originally a bungalow, someone extended it up a floor). I always considered them unremarkable before, but now I've been up there and met them in person, so to speak, I am warming to them.

Authentic to the area would be slate: the houses in the first photo with the grey roofs are the pre-20th century ones. The very dark roof is brand new as it was replaced recently but the house underneath is 17th century, or so the owners tell me. I suspect if our house were built now we'd be required to have a slate roof. But I like our cheap robust 80's tiles :-D

[huinare]

Ooh, fun. Sometimes I try to go up on the back porch roof, but next door's dog barks and barks and won't stop barking at me on the roof, which completely ruins the effect.

[bunn]

I wish I could keep the scaffolding, but alas, they come to take it away next week...

Barky dogs drive me nuts. There are way too many people in my village that consider 'barking at the fence' to be a substitute for actually walking and training their dogs, and it makes walking mine harder, because Rosie in particular gets scared when she has to walk past some snarling beast thudding against the fence. *grrr*

[huinare]

I swear every other house in my neighborhood have people who similarly consider barking at the fence to substitute for training and exercise (and they usually have pits, shepherds, or rotties). Rosie would probably go mad walking two blocks here.

(...the dog I complained about above is barking as we speak, where it is unfortunately about 20 feet from my window...)