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Working Weekend, Glen Etive

5th-7th September 2008

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Oh the excitement! This may look like the glen floor, but its a roof!

Read on for the recipe...

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Some seasoned turfers...

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Wild women...

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and a few planks...

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and everybody be turfin'

One Team finishes the beams while the other brings in aggregates...

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On go the edging boards...

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Covering the roof with carpet by shuggiefisher. Putting down a waterproof membrane by shuggiefisher.

Then carpet, then waterproof membrane, then carpet...

Laying drainage channels at the edge of the roof by shuggiefisher. DSC02678 by shuggiefisher.

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It's totally tubular... in goes the drainage channel...

Lifting the turf onto the roof by shuggiefisher. DSC02681 by shuggiefisher.

And boom! Turf's up dude!

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The turfing volunteers by shuggiefisher.

And for afters?

Wild blackberry picking by shuggiefisher.

Cooking in the cob oven by shuggiefisher.

Pizza, breads, bramble pudding AND... wait for it...

Ladies and Gentleman... Sir Jimmy Saville... Could it get any better?

Many Thanks to Iain Waugh, Donna Beattie, Breeze Harker, David Wilson, Carol Goodall, Chris James, Michael Jefferies, Clare Symonds, David Airlie, Gail Wilson, Tim Randall, Gerry Naughton and Alan Rooney.

Special thanks to Rob Kyle for his excellent photo documentation.