I got to climb up on our roof yesterday for the first time. Now that I have a ladder, I suppose I could do this whenever I wanted, but yesterday was a special occasion because the roof is leaking and the cute roofing estimator came over to inspect it. The view from up there is not quite breathtaking, but it’s much better than that from any of our windows. The only problem is that there are a lot of weird chimneys and fans and pipes up there, and you could also fall and have your bones shatter into a million pieces, which is statistically less probable at the basement window.

Besides the roof, the cute estimator was very concerned about the brickwork on the front of our house, which I am told needs repointing. He said it would be a nightmare job, I suppose because there are a lot of bricks and getting enough people to come over and point at each one of them would be an effort. That's probably what illegal immigrants are for.