The building inspector comes tomorrow to look at the trench for the foundations - half an hour later (9am) the cement (4 cubic metres of it) arrives, and has to be barrowed in. When the poor guys have finished struggling with that, they have to cope with the delivery of the trench blocks in the afternoon. If the cement "goes off" okay over the weekend, it starts to go upwards from monday.

Interesting thing - when the architect came on Tuesday, he said the other outbuildings (aka my coalhouse and 2 other sheds) were to come down to (the previous owner had wanted them down). Well from an aesthetic and light point of view, it makes sense, but they are perfectly useable buildings...I will just have to cope with the narrow dark space between the new and old bits!

The dining room carpet is absolutely WRECKED after all the muck and mud. Beige carpet is not a good idea when you are coming on and off a building site! I will give it a vac over the weekend, and maybe a shampoo later in the year when the work's done. However, it will not be replaced until after the place has also bee re-wired and plastered, which will hopefully be some time next year.

Andrea