Friday morning, early

Thursday 3pm

Thursday morning, early

Wednesday, 1.30pm

Wednesday morning 10am

Wednesday morning, early

Keira

New member of the family. Actually we dog-share her with another family. We look after her from Sat - Tues every week. She likes it. We like it.

Mellow fruitfulness

Orange and gold leaves, damp earthy smells, purple and silver sunsets, and these transient beauties abound.

drains and mesh

so here are the drains, the floor pad with insulation beneath, and a steel mesh to bind them all.

Now covered in concrete we await delivery of the frame, on hold until the planning officer decides to release the building warrant. These people love their petty power. I wonder if he drives a big white car.

Is that it ?

I'm told this is the stage when the space looks the smallest. How can we possibly live in that ?

founds

Week 3: blockwork and concrete !

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.