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.