27th April 2010 - Steels, stumps, lintels & joists

It's coming along nicely, isn't it. The tree stumps finally went today - the photo shows about 1/4 of the stumps that have been lingering on site for 2 months now, and now they are away :-)

The lintels are all fitted in place now, and the steels & joists are all on site and going in this week.

Scott is back too, finishing the back garden too - soakaways are being dug, the back garden water system has been set in, and the new top soil is due this week too, ready for seeding shortly.

Meanwhile, the brickies continue to build onwards and upwards.

21st April - This is what she looks like from the rear

And here is a snap of her rear.

16th April 2010 - Almost ready for the scaffolding

Here we are - 16th April - still on time and on target - kudos to Tony, Adrian and the subbies and Gregg (and me) and the weather gods for keeping everything tickety-boo. The walls are constructed almost up to first lift. Scaffolding should be coming early next week, the steels, joists, lintels etc. are on order, and I think the groundworkers are coming back next week with truck loads of top soil & grass seed to finish off the back gardens. I like saying gardens (plural) - it gives the feeling of the size - croquet court zone, orchard zone, lawn zone. Talking of which, the plum trees that my mum gave me 2 houses ago which have now been transplanted twice in their 10 year lives are now in blossom (see photo) which is great news. If they give us fruit this year, that's great, although just the fact that they are still with us and blossomming (how many Ms???) is more than I hoped for.

It's looking big again - oo-er Mrs.

Plum blossom in the spring-time - the start of a Japanese garden perhaps....

9th April 2010 - Bricks, bricks, bricks

Hoo-ra and up she rises, even if it's not earlie in the morning.

The brickies started on the Tuesday after Easter, and the walls are now rising around us. Most of the window formers are in, and basically you can really begin to see what it's going to look like now. The colours are nice - Capital Brown Multi goes nicely with the Parham Red.