BASE EIGHT

Rear section of framing nearly complete

Utility room

The problem with millimetres is that I can’t see them very well. Further more centimetres cannot be divided in half but not by four. Oh for the days of inches and eighths of them. An inch you can divide by half, four, eight. Half of three quarters is three eights. But then the Romans built the whole empire with letters. Only the Babylonians had numbers giving their descendants the ability to bomb them with precision. My main problem with millimetres is confusing say 2304 with 2340. No chance of confusing 7’3 7/8” with 7´8 1/4”. I wonder if the Romans made mistakes. Was that viaduct designed to take water from Birmingham to Wales?

I have managed to frame all the back section this week, even allowing time to correct one or two mistakes. Hopefully there aren’t any I haven’t noticed. As someone said – there are known knowns … there are known unknowns … but there are also unknown unknowns - if so I shall have to curse my knitting needles and go back several rows.

Its getting warmer and I am having to adopt sun cream.

Back in the real world there is a worthy cause to sing the Verdi requiem from memory – again - in the Queen Elizabeth Hall – it’s a full life.