Day 116. Building up the blockwork in the rain

A bit of a wet day today. Sadly for the builders not wet enough to impede work (it waited till past 4 to really hammer down).

So we now have the inner and outer courses of blockwork begun and got up to brick level.

The finishing off of the kids room is still stalled though: the basin awaits Tim the carpenter to rout out some wood from inside, in order to allow the bowl pipe to be fitted in properly: a painful necessity and far harder than if done beforehand.

Cameo: just as I was getting up to have breakfast, I look out at the back, and there is E (self-dressed in her long red coat, mis-buttoned) very solemnly watching Pete who is carefully measuring up his level lines. What are you doing? she asks, just as he is reading off the numbers on his tape. Pete (trying to remember the number and answer at the same time): "well you see this bit is 570mm and..." so if the extension is wonky its E's fault!