Week 10

Amidst our sorrow the work on the house carried on.  The bricklayers have now finished the external brickwork and the house is ready for the roof work to start next week. 

I noticed some cats this week who apparently think our extension is their new jungle gym.  It looks like there about to have a fight, but they eventually just went their separate ways. 

Here are some pictures taken today.  They have even laid the bricks for our new porch.

They needed to cut a section out of our soil pipe (not a job I'd want to do!) so that a new steel beam could be put in the wall.  It really made us laugh at how it's been put back together.  It's only temporary since that pipe will be coming down and a new one put in a different place, but they put it back together with duct tape!  Or gaffer tape as it's also called here.  The fix-all, every house should have a ready supply of duct tape.

And finally, here is an updated photo of the back of the house

The progress on the house has been bittersweet this week.  We're really looking forward to it's completion, but Mum was also really looking forward to it.  She was so helpful, always willing to give us her opinion and advise. The rest of the project is not going to be the same without her.  I know that she will still see it completed though, she will be smiling down from Heaven.