Preparations for my to studio get a new roof

Summer is a really busy time for us and I realise that I haven't posted anything in a while. Can't complain about being busy though as it's all good stuff, with lots of orders coming in for cards and prints. I'm also trying to build up some work for another pop-up exhibition with the Left Bank Gallery at the Harbour Cottage Gallery in Kirkcudbright next June.
As well as being busy with work, we often get friends and family coming to stay in the summer when it's not too cold on our lovely Northumbrian beaches. One group of guests were even brave enough to swim in the sea. They did wear wet suits though. As well as all this, I finally managed to get the roof on my studio replaced, as it's been leaking for some time.
​I work in a small conservatory attached to our house and it is absolutely rammed full of stuff, all of which had to be removed and stored elsewhere within the house. I would say that an artist's workroom can almost be considered as a work of art in itself, as it's such a personal accumulation and display of stuff. So I was quite sad about having to have to dismantle mine, as I knew it would never be the same again. For all it's limitations, small, freezing in winter, scorching hot in summer, it's a lovely room and it's full of daft little things I've collected or been given. Anyway I decided to preserve it for posterity by making a little video.
Typically the cats loved the adventure of the room being dismantled and watched the builders with great interest from the bedroom windows. Audrey decided to take up residence on my tweed stash for the few days it was stored on our kitchen table. Everything is back in the studio now, except for quite a few disgruntled spiders, cobwebs and dust. The new roof is definitely watertight as it's been stress tested by the recent torrential rain and even an August hail storm. Dean and his team from The Roof Doctor did a grand job. So I can now stop worrying about my leaky roof and what a very clean and tidy studio I have now!