Week starting 15th December 2008 - rooms are forming!

As the stonework at the front of the building starts to rise and the door and window openings are formed, the internal room divisions also start to take shape. Then the internal stone work starts. The large wall dividing the salon and the master bedroom is stone faced each each side and the archway between the dining room and the kitchen is formed. Now it is time to slow down for Xmas.

Week starting 1st December - building up again!

Terracotta blocks above ground and concrete blocks for underground. The building starts to rise from the raft. Also, this week the banking in front of the house receives roughly 100 tons of soil to reshape it and a couple of wet days are spent planting shrubs on the bank.

A generally wet week and this is not helping moral. Slowly the window openings start to show and it is possible to see the beginnings of what is to come.