another accident

24.8.2011

BUILDING NEWS

Today marks the end of the last stage. We have now said goodbye to Geoff because he has completed all the block and brickwork. He rounded off the wing walls yesterday, and today helped to set them up so that they could be core filled this afternoon. It is fantastic to have finally got to this stage but I will miss Geoff, he has been a great person to have working here.

There are a few of the bond beam blocks left over and some bricks. Looking at the house today I think that it would be better to cap the parapet wall with bricks rather than stone. It will be cheaper and more in keeping with the look we have achieved so far. Dion set his pegs in the wall so that the roof can fix onto them and Edd put in the last of the electrical conduit yesterday. So we are ready for the next stages to start.

I am still on floor scraping but I did not get any done today because I fell in a hole this morning and now have a swollen painful ankle. There was an ominous snapping sound when I fell and I was worried that I had broken a bone but luckily I do not think this is the case.

OTHER NEWS

After falling this morning I am reduced to a slow shuffling form of locomotion, which is a major nuisance. My car is automatic so I was able to drive to Warburton and have lunch with Al. He sounded so down last night. Arden is playing the teenage monster from hell and Al still has no proper Internet in the office. Edd has been phoning the politicians to try and get some pressure on the phone company but so far a month has gone by and nothing has moved forward.

I know how bad it feels when you have a child who is determined to loose their chance of getting a college education. I also have has one that nothing I said or did would get them to stay in school. Perhaps parents could get the child to sign a release for so that when they realise how much their actions have affected their life you could bring out the paper work documenting exactly how hard you tried to get them to avoid the problem.

On a more positive note the packing sand was delivered yesterday and dumped by the ruins so that we can level out the area by the old pool and prepare it for vegetable beds. We are rapidly eating through everything we had growing over winter. All the broccoli is gone now and we are eating the green cabbages and cauliflowers. I have replaced what we have eaten with lettuces but we need space to put in snow peas and the rest of the spring crops.