FINI

The house is now finished! Well ... the main outside and structural work is now complete. Tonight the men finished laying the paving slabs for the driveway. We are mindful that we have had some very cold weather the last 2 years and as a result there is ice on the driveway; it is simply a fact of life! So we laid slabs that are rough in texture to help with slipping and secondly we did not opt for full paving as the only possible way to navigate from down the driveway (on an icy slope) is to walk on the stones or "chuckies" as they call them in this part of the world.

The is the garage opening at the top of the driveway. The door is a remote control up and over arrangement - the best invention after the washing machine!

This is the view looking down the driveway from the garage door to the street, i.e. the entrance to the garage along the east side of the house.

The arrows point to a helicopter that was hovering overhead all the time the men were working. What was it doing? A bank robbery? A car chase?

The only good thing about the noise of the every-present helicopter (which is a sinister sort of thing to my way of thinking) was that the noise of its blades drowned out the noise of these guys with their Black and Decker concrete slab cutting machine!