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Cornwall 2022, Day 2
Nov. 19th, 2022 10:40 pmSo, unexpected shenanigans.
There's a standing joke that whenever I visit Craig's I end up embroiled in some DIY project or other. Normally it's a smallish project and it's a useful way to fill a few spare hours. This time the DIY project was a bit more involved...
See, Craig has recently had solar panels installed (well, reinstalled - but that's another tale) along with a couple of his neighbours. After finding a birds nest underneath one set of panels they realised that they really needed bird netting on them (the birds can damage the panels). He and his neighbours made vague plans to install the netting at some point before the scaffolding was taken down... and then on last Thursday realised that the only possible time to do so was this weekend.
So I got to climb up on the scaffolding! I'd actually rate it as one of the least sketchy things I've done, as scaffolders know their stuff (e.g. even the ladder was Very Firmly anchored) - I've climbed up much sketchier ladders just to get into loft hatches and unlike scaffolding, lofts don't have any gates to stop you falling down the hatch. I did decide against climbing on the roof itself and left that to the others to do, and settled for helping out with wrangling the netting from the scaffold platform. Between the four of us I reckon we did a decent job of it, and we certainly got a lot faster as we learnt the best way to bend and anchor the netting. I'm still not planning to change jobs to a roofer though 😅
I didn't spend my entire weekend pretending to be a roofer - in the evening Craig and I headed to his church to take part in the Tearfund Big Quiz Night. Team To Be Confirmed came a respectable joint 7th out of 11, though there was more than one question where we were undecided between two answers and of course wrote the wrong one down!
There's a standing joke that whenever I visit Craig's I end up embroiled in some DIY project or other. Normally it's a smallish project and it's a useful way to fill a few spare hours. This time the DIY project was a bit more involved...
See, Craig has recently had solar panels installed (well, reinstalled - but that's another tale) along with a couple of his neighbours. After finding a birds nest underneath one set of panels they realised that they really needed bird netting on them (the birds can damage the panels). He and his neighbours made vague plans to install the netting at some point before the scaffolding was taken down... and then on last Thursday realised that the only possible time to do so was this weekend.
So I got to climb up on the scaffolding! I'd actually rate it as one of the least sketchy things I've done, as scaffolders know their stuff (e.g. even the ladder was Very Firmly anchored) - I've climbed up much sketchier ladders just to get into loft hatches and unlike scaffolding, lofts don't have any gates to stop you falling down the hatch. I did decide against climbing on the roof itself and left that to the others to do, and settled for helping out with wrangling the netting from the scaffold platform. Between the four of us I reckon we did a decent job of it, and we certainly got a lot faster as we learnt the best way to bend and anchor the netting. I'm still not planning to change jobs to a roofer though 😅
I didn't spend my entire weekend pretending to be a roofer - in the evening Craig and I headed to his church to take part in the Tearfund Big Quiz Night. Team To Be Confirmed came a respectable joint 7th out of 11, though there was more than one question where we were undecided between two answers and of course wrote the wrong one down!
