Summer's come....and it's all go

What a change in the weather from last week - it's been really hot and it looks as if the fine weather may coincide with our thatching which is just about to start.  The scaffolding's up, which meant Paul could finish a couple of jobs on part of the roof, adding new bargeboard.  I took the opportunity of the temporary hole to throw this huge collection of twigs out of our roofspace.  It's jackdaws that have done this - we have seen it before when they are trying to build a nest.  They find a small hole that they think is suitable but don't understand the necessity for some sort of ledge, immediately inside, for the twigs to land on.  They simply keep on posting sticks through the hole which drop to the floor below (or, as in the case of a chimney, down to our register plate) and they never manage to make their nest.  If there was a ledge, they would stop when there were just s few sticks laid and get on with the egg-laying.