Going up

It's been a busy few days. Not only have I been very busy, hence the lack of posts for a week, but so have the builders.

Despite a heavy shower or two last tuesday, the concrete pour all went to plan with the footings for the retaining wall and kitchen/diner put inplace. Since then Paul the brickie has been on site putting up the blockwork for the retaining wall. Friday saw another pour for the garage footings and so far this week Paul has started on the garage retaining wall while the other guys put the drainage behind the retaining wall. All in all lots of progress and it's great to see the walls coming out of the ground, even if they're only the retaining walls.

With the weather still being very kind to us its good that the guys are making such progress. Hopefully they'll carry on at this pace and get fully out of the ground, for the extensions as well as the retaining walls, before we see any change in the weather. That said, the long range forecast for this winter is for a drier and warmer than average one so maybe it'll stay like this for a while.