OH ........ FOR THE LOVE OF EBAY!

So far all of the ebay transactions have been pleasent, until Sunday when a bloke arrived to pick up the hip tiles he'd bought for £20.00, and I would like to make it clear that IT WAS ALL MY FAULT that
1.He travelled from London to Chesterfield in the snow, in a pair of office shoes, no coat, no gloves, and no hat.
2. That he got stuck in the snow for 2 hours on the M1
3. That he could not fit all 120 of the tiles in his boot of his car.
4.That he had a really USELESS wife who sat in the car the whole time rubbing her hands together, whilst I was lugging their tiles about, every so often popping inside to check on baby Reuben!

I got so fed up in the end with all his moaning and grumbling as he slipped  around on the drive, I left him too it, and how I chuckled  when he then got the car stuck on the drive, luckily Pete came home from work in time to rescue them!

The conditions on the site have been poor the last couple of days, the slop from the bottom of the trench and the melting snow has made it quite treturous, however the build moves on and its great to see where some of the rooms are and the size of them. Pete has had to add an frost proof additive to the cement and the brick work is tucked in at night.

We have taken delivery of 50 metres of hessian today to replace all the dust sheets etc!

IN THE SNUG AT THE BOTTOM OF THE KITCHEN.

Perhaps it is just me but  this dosen't look like a very technical way to mark out the site!

Today Pete and Dave are digging the trench that will make the Kitchen and Family room at the back of the house, and tomorow we have the architect (Haydn) and the building inspector coming to inspect the trenches and 2 loads of concrete booked for the afternoon (hooray I get to see my old pal from Lefarge again!)
Hopefully the grab lorry will turn up some day soon to collect all the roof tiles that we sold, which will give us back a lot of space, pete wants to build some bays for sand etc as it will be more cost effective to have it delivered loose rather than the bulk bags.

We have an all singing all dancing caravan again, with water, electricity and everything!!!!