When the alarm sounded at 5.00 am I rolled over and went back to sleep until 7.00 am.

Then a very slow start and out on site by 9.00 am (left 7.00 pm).

I spent most of the morning completing various tidy up tasks I had been putting off for a while and quite enjoyed them.

I had also brought along a small electric mulcher I had bought five years ago for $50.

I was just itching to see if this would work on all the bamboo we pruned the other week.

It worked surprisingly well apart from a tendancy to jam up periodically if not carefully fed.

Around middday, one o'clock, I went up on the roof to work on cranking the columns back to vertical.

For the first column I ended up needing to use the chain block and clamped off against a timber diagonal.

For an autumn day it was surprisingly hot out on the corrugated iron and I found myself flagging.

I was contemplating taking a short nap when Ian popped in for a visit.

We had a coffee and chatted away for a couple of hours.

By now it had cooled down outside and I had regained some energy

Ian very kindly helped me align and clamp the columns and headed off as dusk approached.

I continued on, tightened up all the high tensile bolts and then liberally coated each one with primer top and bottom.

Not a huge amount of progress today but quite a pleasant day.

Next week I start working on the columns for supporting the other ends of the large span beams.

This means removing ceiling plaster in the garage and temporary roofing above.