Water feature (reprise)

Maintenance
The leak in the roof in the old owners' accommodation reared its ugly head again during very heavy rain on Thursday night. There was a small puddle of water on the kitchen floor. Seems it's all due to the window sill in the lower room. There isn't one and if the wind's in a particular direction the water gets blown underneath. The roofer has filled the gap with mastic and hopefully that's that. The minor leak that was mended last week seems to have been sorted as have all the other problem areas.

Renovation
Meanwhile the joiner who came a cropper yesterday has been patched up (five stitches) , though he wasn't here today. The decorators were finishing the final pieces of papering and the plaster was skim-plastering the new wall on the staircase. The electricians were fitting the light switches and sockets for a grand switch-on tomorrow. Even the plumber put in a special guest appearance.

Aerial view
An aerial engineer was here today. The existing installation consists of an aerial mounted high up on the side of the hotel and cables running around the side of the building and in below the windows. Our new flat screen tvs are going to be mounted on the walls and will be fed from above. So we wanted a new aerial fitted to the wall or chimney with a cable fed into the attic. The aerial engineer thought that we would get a perfectly good signal putting the aerial in the roof space and this proved to be correct. Suddenly the installation becomes very easy indeed. We just run a cable from the aerial to our little distribution amplifier thingy and then connect it to the tvs via the little conduits that the electrician has left for us.

What's left?
Well, the scaffolding towers come down tomorrow and the decoration should be finished then too. The furniture arrives on Thursday and most of the carpets in the public areas will be fitted that day too. There won't be time to fit the stair carpets until next week, so the existing ones will be cleaned.

Roll in the barrell
Meanwhile, two pins of ale have arrived from Wylam brewery.

Here's one. Isn't it a cute little thing. Wait until it grows up! This is "Pin No1" and, unlike Hadrian and Border Brewery there is also a "Pin No 2" not to mention 3, 4 and 5.