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<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The rest of the week has been too wet to make any worthwhile progress which, while frustrating, wasn\u2019t disastrous as we are waiting on another delivery of wood so we couldn\u2019t have continued very far anyway.\u00a0 Had the weather been better I think our builder would have been more forceful with the timber supplier!\u00a0 We hope it will arrive early next week so I can get on with a bit as the forecast is due to improve from about Tuesday although our builder is away for a couple of weeks from the middle of next week.\u00a0 The 16 week project timeframe is going to slip!!<\/p>\n Thankfully our To-Do list has sufficient tasks on it to keep us occupied when we aren\u2019t able to work on the garage and I have been able to progress the \u2018dry\u2019 stone wall behind the building.\u00a0 (As my man-shed isn\u2019t yet large enough, until we have been able to create a dry space in the garage we can\u2019t work with electrical tools but I can work outside on and off between the showers \/ downpours!)<\/p>\n I am really pleased with how it is looking and am only upset that it isn\u2019t going to be very visible as we have chosen to build an enormous garage in front, but I will see it every time I go around the back to collect logs and it will allow us to smarten up the boundary hugely and replace another area of untamed bramble and knotweed with proper hedging.<\/p>\n The pictures give you an indication of how much rock and slate are in the ground as the pile in front of the walls is a fraction of what I have dug up since starting the foundations for the garage.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The skeletal frame of the garage had its greatest challenge yet last night as storm Angus passed close by as it headed east along the channel.\u00a0 We were very concerned as the lovely couple who had stayed with us for 2 weeks in Priory left yesterday and were due to sail from Roscoff overnight which, if it sailed at all, would not have been very comfortable.<\/p>\n Thankfully, despite extremely strong winds and torrential rain, we haven\u2019t suffered any damage although amazingly one of the bay tree standards outside our front door was blown over which was the only significant impact for us other than lots of dead twigs leaves coming down.<\/p>\n Today has been the real post-storm calm with barely a breath of wind so we thought we\u2019d take the dogs for one of our usual walks around the Lac du Drennec to see if there was much damage and also to see it at its lowest point for a couple of years.<\/p>\n Early in the season it didn\u2019t appear that they were using the water of the lake as it remained much higher than last year.\u00a0 However, in September the level started dropping, and dropping, and dropping to what is now the lowest we have ever it seen it.\u00a0 Although we have only been here 22 months an article in the local paper said that it was at its lowest since 2003 and 2011 as this year has seen the driest October since those years.<\/p>\n We certainly remember that there were many weeks in October without rain and this has evidently caught out the people who manage the level of the lake, which is a reservoir for Brest, Landerneau and Landiviseau.\u00a0 Walking around it today was therefore eerie as the shoreline was a long way from the 2 beaches and about 8 metres down (looking at the depth gauges) from the top of the \u2018plug\u2019 and the floating bridge across the Elorn is now sat firmly on the lake bed.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n