Rotten luck

Sleep will not come. I lie awake listening to the rain falling. Rain as heavy as my heart. Yesterday evening I watched the rain running down the inside of the walls. The bales are thoroughly wet. Tiles should cover the roof by this time next week but that is small consolation. It will take weeks for the bales to dry. The surface inch or two of the bales will dry quickly but it will take a good spell of hot, dry weather if there is to be any chance of the deeper parts drying out. In the centre of the wet bales the straw will already be starting to rot. Having kept the bales dry over the winter this is bitterly disappointing.

It is not the first time that I have regretted chosing the design we have but I have never regretted it so much as I do tonight. I fear that all that there will be to show for our efforts and life savings will be an enormous compost heap.

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