After 4 weeks of cold and wet weather with occasional dry spells in between the workmen have now finished the walls of the garage and connecting porch.
Today was a glorious sunny spring day so everybody and his dog was out! As our garden i.e. construction site, was quiet I walked around and took some photos. Everything is coming on just fine. It has, however, turned out to be a lot more work (digging, materials etc) than anticipated.
The squinty (green) toilet for the workmen gives the front of our house a certain novel character. Add to that are the orange builder's bags that arrive by truck and are then unloaded by crane. Last Thursday night we had a gale from the southwest which brought with it great gusts of wind causing these bags and other material loose on the site to go careening down the street or into neighbours' gardens. I was out there tying blue plastic sheeting on to scaffolding. (This comes from my days of tying down sails on the deck to keep them from flapping or flying away!)
The roof trusses go on tomorrow. Soon we will have a place to put a car ... called a garage ... which, in the past, was mostly used as a storeroom for sailbags, boat engines, rope, yacht varnish, oars, not to mention IKEA boxes, bags of coal, bits of timber ... etc, etc etc!
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