Hello everyone,

Last week got a bit busy and I didn’t get any photos with daylight until Friday so you are going to get a lot of pics in a couple of posts today.

So last week the house got it’s first winter layer (better get cracking guys   – it’s getting cold again).   All the building paper wrap is now pretty much in place and we just have to hope that the weather gods have stayed away from the curry house so that the paper stays in place.  Keep your fingers crossed for us.     I believe that the windows/ frames etc will be on site in the next 2 weeks!!  Crazy to think that we’ll have opening windows soon.  There is always an upside – I can hang out inside the house and practice opening and closing all the doors. The downside however is that I have lost my ability to cut through the exterior wall -walk-through-the-house-to-the-toilet shortcut.   Still – can’t be complaining about these things as progress is a good thing.  Because the faster we go the sooner i’ll have an inside toilet anyway so warp speed ahead I say.

here’s some pics of the wrap:   (I wanted a bow effect but apparently i’m a little early in the process for that kind of request)

Saturday morning the lad and I were merrily sitting down to a lovely cooked breakfast (still in our pjs’) when we both saw a truck slowing on the approach to our place, then pulling into our driveway, then the barking burglar deterrent told us that we indeed had visitors – scaffolding no less.      Apparently builders and roofers can’t be trusted by OSH not to fall off roofs anymore so they need to be tied on to some scaffolding (which quite frankly looks like it wouldn’t stop a mouse falling off). But anyway – if it keeps the compliance peeps happy then go for it.

so here’s the scaffolding on it’s way up.  (I’m still trying to work out how the scaffolding guys get their safety tick without having their scaffolding to stop them falling off the scaffolding they are putting up..??)