love it!

So this weekend the fun started the boys were on site laying the first bricks. Keiran etched his name into the first brick as it was to be laid in his house. It was a busy day on site moving blocks, making up muck and laying blocks. More concrete crushing was  required.

Sabrina and Keiran went away for a few days last week and got engaged! They are planning on getting married next year. So now there is also a wedding to plan. Mum is going crazy over the thought of shopping and choosing colours with Sabrina. I hope Keiran knows what he has signed up for. Nothing like a bit of hard work from our family this year life is non- stop!

Blocking Good Progress

It has been a while since the last update on account that we are all so busy. This weekend we have been moving blocks, to get them ready for the brick layers to start the block work. A very exciting phase in the build; where from the ground houses will hopefully appear.

I always knew Mark was good at maths. I remember from my childhood, at about 9 years old, I had trigonometry explained to me. I didn’t understand this concept then, I grasped the concept for my GCSE maths where I got a B, but have since forgotten how to use this skill. Why you ask may I be mentioning this? Well I have always known that building involved lots of mathematical understanding, but not quite realised how much. Until we are on site discussing and mentally calculating how many blocks to stack in which places, believe it or not you have to work this out. It apparently saves you from moving the blocks twice and wasting time and energy.

So moving the blocks themselves was a physical task which we all did together. Whilst working, Mark also informed me that for every block we moved we saved 8p on a labourer. So whilst carrying it was a good opportunity to practice my 8 times table.


My head is now filled with Maths! So what to do with the rest of my Sunday after dinner? With maths in my head I suppose I had better get on with planning a few maths lessons for the children at school.

Mix-Up

Sabrina and Keirans Place

So it has been a while since the last update due to the Wrights running around the country socialising and partying, Nicola is also going back to school, boo hoo!

The site has moved on lots and lots the footings have been dug and filled with concrete. This involved several weekends of concrete mixing and Les in the trenches spreading it out.


What, you may ask have we learned about mixing concrete? Well, if one person loads the mixer with cement, one puts in the ballast and the other person adds the water the job gets done faster. Although bags of cement are heavy and dusty and after a day on site even you boogies are concreted up your nose. Water is less physical work but be careful not to catch the bucket on the edge of the mixer, this results in the water flying back out at you making you soaked wet through to your pants and you begin to wonder if it is water ,or if you have wet yourself.

We have been introduced to the concrete crusher this weekend which is a noisy machine that eats large pieces of concrete and smashes it up into little chunks.

After many years of being told not to play with fire, we lit a bonfire and enjoyed burning everything we could find on site.

The Wright House