Easter 2014 pt2

Easter weekend saw us heading back to Eigg with more tools and some glazing materials. The plan was to mend the broken roof lights, take the boards down to let the light in and temporarily repair the broken windows. I had worked out the right place for a workshop and where I was going to keep materials securely. We were going to finish clearing all of the upstairs rooms and then I could start on the roof. As of April 20th, some of the rooms looked like this.

and the workshop

Phil came over for a few days and assembled the table saw 

and made a temporary repair on one of the windows

The boards came down from the upstairs windows, broken panes were removed and the house started to open its eyes and wake up.

We cleared the remaining upstairs rooms and with all of the woodwormed and unuseable/unrecyclable furniture and rubbish...

We'd met a guy working on the island who went by the name of Shuggy. He had a digger, we had an as yet not working dumper truck, and together we had a deal to put in a hardcore track down to the house. Not only that, but he brought his machine along and towed my trailer to the top of the hill so I was able to take it home on the return journey. We set off on a glorious Easter Sunday, calling in at Arisaig to see some old friends form Farnsfield who were holidaying on the west coast.