This went well, however, the left lens fell out of my glasses and despite searching the veranda for half an hour I could not find it amoungst all the leaves and debris.

If this had happened two hours later then it would not have been a problem as my second job scheduled for the day was to clean up all the leaf litter.

I rang Linda who managed to book me an appointment for an hour away.

I shot back to Mundaring, but on the way to the optometrist I dropped back home and picked up a previous pair of distance glasses.

At my appointment I was lucky - we could transplant a lens from the old pair to my current pair.

This got me out of the immediate poo but we also did the eye test and as it was 4 years since my last prescription we have ordered a new pair of spectacles.

I think I was annoying the optometrist - I was a bit hyper (if was forecast to be a very hot day and I wanted to get back on site as quickly as possible before the worst of the heat).

She told me I needed to slow down and look after myself - so after our appointment I stopped for a coffee at Dome and then headed back out to site - in all, probably 3 hours lost out of my working day.

Back on site, I threw a lot of gear off the veranda to the ground 3 metres below.

I then used my leaf blower to clean up all the verandas and a good portion of the internals of the house at street level.

If I had not lost time I could have done more tidying up before the leaf blowing and left it 100 % clean - as it was, I probably managed a 90% clean which is still a considerable improvement.

By now it was warming up - so I had a break and then started working on dismantling the final double door and frame.

At this point Jim and Sandy turned up - so I had another break but then Jim helped me with the doors and this saved me a considerable amount of time.

Next I carefully removed all hardware from the doors - hinges, locks, brackets, etc and loaded them on to the trailer.

As evening approached it was finally cool enough to put away all the gear that I had thrown off the back veranda.

Also, there were now piles of leaves lying around, so I raked these up.