Sunk into the Graun's Quick Crossword this morning when a rumble and a crash hauled me out again. Looked down into the street to see broken roof-tiles littering pavement and road. Half a dozen tiles had come away from our top
auvent, impacted on the middle one and been deflected out into the road. Fortunately nobody had been passing at the time either on foot or in a car, otherwise hamburger.
What's an auvent*? This is the gable end of our house:
Those cutlet frills are the auvents. The top one is missing a few tiles. Got road and pavement cleared with help of lad from next door, set out a couple of trestles and Keep Out tape as warning. Went in & phoned the bloke who usually fixes such things for us, but natch it's Saturday so it's answering machine only until Monday.
And then it'll be 1500€ for the scaffolder and 50€ for the tiles. If we're lucky.
* Google says awning or porch roof. Google is an arse.