Making better progress

Todays visit left us feeling slighly more upbeat than of recent times! We were pleased to see the brickies have almost finished and that the carpenter had been on site putting 'bits' above the windows and installing the frames for the two baths.

A new feature to The Build Build!

It's amazing what a morning off work and a spirit of 'I'm not going to do anything particularly productive today' does!

We've just signed up to an online forum where every intricate detail of house building is shared between fellow peeps and it made me realise just how unaware I really am of the time line we're following, delays to our build, and where we're up to with payments etc.

I promptly started to put together a list in MS Word and half way through the mundane task of pulling the information together thought to myself "surely there must be a more intersting way to present this information". Moments later, by the power of google I had discovered an online timeline application! And better still, it can be embedded in blogs! Perfick!

It's at the bottom of the page and I will update it as we continue on this journey of house building!

Ps. Make sure you use the zoom function as there is a fair bit of info in that timeline!

Nearly there with those bricks!

We'd had our weekly update via email which told us that the brickies would be finishing up this week, so today we tootled off down to have a look! I wouldn't say they'd finished just yet but are certainly not far off! It feels good that they are back on site (after both xmas and the heatwave) at least.

Dan also took the opportunity to dig up and spray some weeds!

The Two Extremes...

Whilst we've suffered 40c plus temperatures for the last 5 days (not dropping below 35c one night!), the UK is covered in snow!

I love the two extremes of these reports...

Arghh
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24973504-5006301,00.html

Brrr
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7865370.stm