The Trossachs

Before and after shots of repaired gable. The building was pre-1850 and the skews - the large stones making the apex- were sliding off. Beneath them the iron fixings were rusting away. We removed the skewcope and skewputs, replaced the rusted fixings with stainless steel and relaid and repointed with lime.

Kilmun

Repairing an old boundary wall in Kilmun towards the end of summer 2012.

Tighnabruaich

I reflected on some of Para Handy's words while I did this small repair in Tighnabruaich. He has it that the mudges are that bad there that they will bite their way through corrugated iron roofs to get at you. They appeared in such numbers that the swarms changed the colour of my clothes. You can't keep them out so I hoped for rain to drive them away but for once, just when needed, none came.