Great week for building
1st May 2012
Last week went well. the weather held for us and we managed to get the main stream wall foundations and steel in for the bridge at Coniston with a concrete pour on Friday.With relief as the rest of the country wallowing in floods we are now out of the water with both bridge abutments in place .
Another couple of days should see us ready for the galvanised Ubeams to span the gap with steel reinforcement and concrete over.
Work at home has also gone well too ,seeing the water tank complete and Tanked internally with Hedi k11.
Landscaping to the kids play area is now almost complete too, some large boulders from the pond excavations have been put to good use as a seat with room for planting ether side.
Thursday evening saw me pack the bike and head off for northern Scotland for 4 days.
Again whilst the rest of the country including Cumbria got heavy rain we Faired well with sunshine for much of the time making very very pleasant riding indeed
We covered 1200 miles in 4 days. walked scrambled Stac polly standing at 700m a sand stone volcano looking mountain with its pillars and precarious looking rocks perched high above looking as though one slight push and they would be tumbling to the abyss below. carved from the ice age and millions of years of weather there's some pretty impressive shapes.
Wild camping much of the time its a very friendly easy going and beautiful place, Applecross with its 1500' pass and great food at the Applecross Inn,Ullapool to Durness with its long easy roads and a picture to be had around every corner,Durness to John o Groats with its beautiful white sandy (empty)beaches and quiet roads made for a fantastic break and makes you just want to go back and do some more some time soon.
