Digging down to build up

Construction begins August 2010 with trenches going much deeper than expected. The site originally sloped fairly sharply down to the Edderston Burn and was filled and levelled with builders rubbish from the building of our old house next door.

Finding the hard ground meant digging down nearly 2.5 metres towards the rear of the site. Consequently the foundations are so deep that we needed three times as much concrete to fill them.

Lucky I don't care at all about those green issues.

Suddenly September

Yes, yes; no posts for a few months. Not that you were looking...

Anyway, it's now August with its deep green, smoke and wafts of cooler evening air hinting at the season to come. We spent the summer in New Zealand (well.. the winter in Auckland- you know what I mean) and sojourned in Hong Kong on the way home. Extraordinary. Temple Street market. Those in the know will smile.

In NZ I ran some short drama courses for lively and enthusiastic home-schooled students, who always restore my faith in young people.

Back home there is now a large hole filled with concrete where once our garden grew. Dramatic beginnings to our little house project with deeper-than-expected trenches (nearly 2.5 metres at the far end) taking three concrete trucks to fill them even half full.

Photos to follow.
Possibly a separate bog site to record the build process. It's all in flux.