On top of the world - well the roof anyway!!!

I've been working with my Dad to do some repairs on the roof of the house. I live in a Victorian house which is very high and the adrenalin really flows when you get a ladder to the roof. So, we've had a scaffold put up at great expense to help with health and safety - mine!

It seemed a shame whilst up there not to take a few photos of the views as it's not very often you get to see what the pigeons do. The pictures below give an idea of the view. What's intriguing to think is that 103 years ago when the house was built (yes I know that Victoria died just before that but the house is definitely one you'd call Victorian, not Edwardian), there would have been clear views right across the Cheshire plain and into the Welsh hills as well as clear sight of the local church. Not anymore, there's just a smidgen of a proper horizon in just one of the pics and the spire just about peeps out. Ah well, progress - there must be a story in there somewhere!

Don't you just love the sexy outfit I'm wearing! It got so hot at one point I had my shirt off - proper builder-like, wolf-whistling at the lovely ladies passing by (not really!). That spire thingy now looks a lovely shiny black, as do my hands, face, neck, shirt, trousers etc.

This is the one where you can just about see the Welsh hills (with x-ray binoculars!)

Across to St John's Church on Delamere Street. Looking down Swanlow Lane south.Hopefully it won't need doing again while I still live there!!!!!!!!!!!!