"start with the edges!"

 Anyone, any good at jigsaws?!, everything does seem to be labelled and we have also had the instructions on how to build it sent this week on a memory stick, after failing to plant it in Pete's brain we had a hard copy printed off, -plenty of bedtime reading, as if Pete needed anything else keeping him awake ( at the end of the build I'm going to have a very shiny new house but an old grey husband to put in it!!).

 OK, it wasn't quite the same as some massive lorry turning up from Germany with six blokes in lederhosen ready to erect the huff haus before elevensis, But it was our house and I thought it was great!, it took four deliveries over 3 days for it all to come.

we have had more clay taken away and Yes! the chaps nice but in my opinion he drives like a girl, not only is the top of the drive now ruined, -turning wheels whilst stationary, he's now gone so close to the caravan he's crushed the edge of the
 Pat "I" "O"(as Mrs Aitken would say!)

Today we have had another load of concrete delivered, and the floors are now down in the study, lounge, laundry and utility and I was able to help with the raking again, as my lunch date cancelled me to have tea with the Queen instead. I've been next to useless on the site this week, I shut my finger in the car door (Pete said it was the worst finger injury he's seen in his A+E career and promptly stiuck a plaster on it) and Reubens turned into the Margret Thatcher of the baby world and ditched the 2 hour daytime nap opting for 15 min power naps instead!!.

Jude managed to find a rake in the sand pit and was as helping to level the floor, he is really enjoying the whole process.

We are having more and more deliveries each day now, sadly that means more and more bills, so far we are managing to keep on top of them and the spread sheet for the VAT  claim, this afternoon they have been really tidying up the site in preparation for all of the deliveries that are planned in next few days. The picture above is Pete taking deliverey of the flue liner for the chimneys, he has done much research into what type to use in a new build.

Anna has been to inspect the site again this morning, and won't come back officially until the roof is on! but we still need to do everything properley as she said she'd call in to say hello when she visits the Plough site up the road. Haydn had a headache and couldn't come today (perhaps Haydn lives in a caravan with 3 kids 2 dogs and two chickens as well!!) so" enter Daniel stage right " from the firm who seemed to be happy with progress.

We have been moved out of the bungaow 10 weeks now and things have been going really well, but this week there has felt a bit more frantic- with the arrival of the frame and the bricklayers starting next monday a week earlier than Pete had thought, and the fork lift getting a puncture the day before we needed it to off load the timber frame, But this afternoon Pete is glad to have got the last of the floors done and levelled. The hall and porch are going to have the super duper self levelling stuff as the hall is a random shape ane the porch is gong to have the parquet floor (that I still haven't started to clean up) and needs to be really flat. And they have started to now dig the curved trench that forms part of the porch, and concrete booked for monday.