My next project

Nothing to do with ULMs, this one. I’ve just taken delivery at about 8.30 am this morning of what I need to get cracking on it. I’ve lived with the door at the back of my house for the last eight years since I came to France and every winter I’ve cursed because whenever a storm has blown in from the west, rainwater has come pouring into my living room. The reason is that it’s so old, rotten and full of cracks from having been dried out by the sun over so many years, you can see daylight through its joints.

Well, enough is enough and at last I’ve got around to doing something about it and I’m now going to replace it with a double aluminium framed sliding door, what is called a ‘baie coulissante’ here in France. I ordered it over eight weeks ago but what with Covid and the French tradition of closing down for the month of August, it’s only just arrived.

I’d hoped to get it before the weather began to cool down but there was no chance of that and now I’ve got to keep my fingers crossed that it’ll stay warm and dry enough to get the job done next week. I’ll have to make a start ASAP because the forecast is for storms in the second half and if I leave it until then, things will drag on into the next week when it’s bound to be becoming cooler and less favourable.