Hello and welcome

We're having building work done and it started today! Hurrah!

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to write it up day by day. Quite possibly only for me, but who knows, this may become a cult site with vast numbers of hits, ha ha.

The blog title is a play on "Bob the builder" of course, in fact I was somewhat surprised it wasn't already taken. Our builder (the head honcho) is called Robert Smiley, so it fits, too.

For the intro, here is a "before" pic. Its a brick outhouse type thing, with an "exterior" bit (near) which we've used as a bike shed; and an "interior" bit which was my workroom. Phase 1 is knocking out the interior walls (after checking that the flat roof will still stand up...), converting the toilet bit into a mini toilet/shower area, building a nice bay window at the back to admire the garden from. Slightly undefined areas are what happens to the rainbutt; and where we put the bikes. Well, we'll deal with that when it arises.