Another star

Mr BW has a badge, like those that McDonald’s employees sport.
One star for every demonstrated and perfected skill.
It’s a bit large now, and a bit cumbersome, so it is very heavy, and he can’t actually wear it any more.
I think that The Black Familiar looks after it, as well as Mi1dred, in the workshop/garage.
This week it gained another 2 stars: the recycling star – awarded for cutting off useful cables and plugs before taking something to the tip, without being reminded; for asking people offloading many useful things – obviously from a house clearance – from a hired van at the tip, if we could have some items (spirit levels and metal supports); and for bringing back some shredded cardboard (that I had absent-mindedly put in the kitchen recyling bin) for b33 smoker fuel rather than putting it in the recycling bin at the end of the drive.
And the slating star, for reusing large quantities of slates, and wood from previous building phases.
Here are some photos of the stages of the wood store construction, which includes a slated roof, made from the leftover slates we made the roofers leave behind (there were 200 of them, they told us they cost £2 each, and £400 wasn’t coming off the bill if they took them away as they were planning, so they stayed here, after I noticed and Mr BW intervened). It has been constructed on the east wall of the house, between the chimney pillar and the edge nearest the revamped conservatory.
Before:

With the (Mr BW made) steel supports and roofing support timbers:

Roof starting:

Roof continuing:

Dividers:

Reusing the forged gate – that Mr BW made for the field gate at Coven Sud, that we moved North – as a camouflaging rose support:

Now we just have to fill the wood store with all the timber (largely trees that we chopped down as they were in the way of the various building projects) from the collapsing former wood shed (once a dog kennel), and with the rest of the yet-to-be-chopped-up remaining old roof timbers.
Strangely, today our chosen episode of Johnnie Walker’s SOTS, Ghost Edition, was from 3 years ago, weeks before The Proper Queen died, and featured pre-amble from when the England Women footballers won the last trophy.