Up stairs

So the brick work has been steaming ahead and I cannot believe for the first time the houses seem like real homes. We have electricity in and meters.



Has been a little cold over the past week and apparently you cannot lay bricks if it is less than 3° probably because the sand is frozen solid and the water. Les and the boys have been working really hard. We have upstairs and scaffolding. Apart from the weather and Nicolas fractured wrist not much seems to be holding the build back at the moment. So mum and Mark are off sunning themselves on their cruise while we freeze and wait for the temperature to pick up.

Autumn Shopping

A tree at the front of the site

 

It looks like autumn is here and things are getting wet and cold; which is no real issue for people who pop down to the building site once a week. I would hate to be a builder at this time of year getting wet and cold. The houses are really taking form with brick work actually going up around the outside.

We also have all the pipes and tubes and things that happen underground in. The drive has been covered in hardcore so is ready for a lovely new place to park our cars.

Soon to come the upper floor! So exciting! The joys of being a well brought up female are to send the boys up to the site and explain we need to work, at home and then spend the whole day browsing the internet for floor tiles and furniture. Looking at sites like NEXT and Laura Ashley. Just Nicola and Sabrina doing what mum taught us to do well.


We are wondering who is living in our houses already as we keep finding random objects. Last month we found a single brand new shoe. This week somebody left us their left over saturday night takeaway looks like they had a good night out. I won't tell you what other things we found!