WEIRD?

Its really odd at the moment the temperature has dropped and its cold at night but by day I am still seeing what looks like the same butterfly for weeks now, really odd, they aren't usually around this time of year are they?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

In amidst our hectic lives at present it was mums birthday so we all brought a plate...(that had to be explained to Auntie Lou!! ie we wanted it full of food!!! not an empty plate!!) and Laura brought a cake which she had made up at uni 4 hours by car for nanny!! SO I think we made yet another birthday all ok!! Happy Birthday!

VACANT!

Had to take some well about 4 tonne of plasterboard to the dump luckily Dad came over and helped! It rained like you wouldn't believe and the plasterboard was disintegrating by the minute and there is white powder sludge everywhere here and in the truck!!...I took this photo of shadow, she was sitting with her tongue stuck out for ages, it looked how I felt " Aaaa whats going on??" It was a hard day after moving the stuff down 4 sets of double staircases! but just as I thought we were getting there today they took down another two ceilings AAAAAHHHH never going to catch up at this rate!! oh well

LOST BROADBAND!

What a nightmare week its been, we were supposed to have our office telephone line moved, only 10 yards! so we were assured by BT that the business movers would smoothly change it all over.....nothing they said happened and we lost our business line and our broadband for 4 days, its been a real headache and I have been on the phone via my mobile!!! which is expensive on 0800 numbers to try to sort it, I must have spent hundreds just in a queuing system 3 or 4 ties a day!!! anyway long long story but its fixed now hence the entry!

SECOND SLAB IN!

After spending a while forming up the shuttering for the second slab and building the base plate to hold the building, we finally got the base in. The forming up took a while as it was so fiddly and the diagonals kept moving as it was a large area and a bit like containing treacle. Would have been ok if it was a level surface we were pouring on to!... We had a dry mix to start and then a wet mix so we didn't have to wheel barrow too much to the rear. Ant and Andy must be fed up laying bases here, and every time we say this will be the last one!!

WE GOT THE FIRST SLAB LAID

The first slab of the car port was laid on Friday, the first stage of that area, we have a long way to go but this was a great place to get to after the first week, and it was a hectic one. Luckily Pete timed it right and was back from his meeting just in time to lay the concrete, he seems to always come in at the end, glory hunter!! only kidding he works hard too, but he is mostly in the office during the week, and tries to time it right to help when we need an extra pair of hands and I am out with Andy and Ant most days working and then weekends Pete works all hours outside, to do the heavy work to try to get ahead, I try to get my office work in at nights really.... Today we have been working hard putting in a sole plate for the main internal load bearing wall, the ground is falling away so its quite a complicated structure, although when people see it finished they wont realise this...SO I AM TELLING YOU!! its hard work ha ha....

SO FUNNY...

It is Friday and we have had a real week of it, late nights early mornings working that is! Not partying or something!....So we thought we would just walk the dogs to the duck pond, my legs just wouldn't get as far as the beach, the duck pond was a struggle, I am absolutely shattered, so thought it would be good to go for a walk!!! don't ask must be mad.... anyway we got out of our drive in auto pilot, shadow sat in the road half way across so I had to drag her to safety...a car was stopped by Pete and a happy looking older couple were inside, I sort of came in the middle of a conversation and just assumed they knew Pete, Pete was laughing as was the woman, she said 'so you don't know where the enterprise centre is?? He laughed and said no.. so I just thought they were taking the mick as Pete designed the enterprise centre, then they said about somewhere to stay, and Pete proudly joked over there with us, I was thinking he must know them as they are just taking the mick... Then she said to me, "so you dont know where the premier inn is? I looked at Pete and he looked at Me, He thought he should know them and thought they were joking around and I thought he knew them so we are both there laughing at them, until that moment....we looked at each other and knew then that neither of us knew them and they were genuinely asking for directions, we must have looked like right plonkers, we finally gave them directions. I hope it isn't there first time to Cornwall they will have a very odd opinion of us Cornish!.. I might no have explained it very well, but it was soo funny, you just had to be there. Then we crossed the main A390 by the level crossing and Shadow just stopped again, but this time I couldn't get her going and now she is upside down on her back with the traffic stopped in both directions, she was having a great time rolling around I just couldn't get her up, so I tried to pull her out the way by her front feet!.. I finally got her clear and the traffic resumed normality albeit with roaring with laughter people inside!!! We only went out for a bit of a walk!....

WORKING FROM DAWN TILL DUSK!

Andy and Ant arrived and we started digging at 7am and finished when we couldn't see any more, but we have laid the drainage, cables and ducting for the build, the worst part, at least the ground is covered in again, a bit of a state but covered in at least. We have been working on the form work for the concrete pour tomorrow, we are going to do it in two slabs as they vary in height, the second will hopefully go in on Monday but we will see how it goes, Andy and Ant and me will work on it in the morning ready for Pete to get back from his meeting and then help the pour, its been a gruelling week and no rest at all yet, I haven't done any work that I should have done, I am aiming for next Tuesday so sorry of those of you waiting for letters, they are on the way!! We need to go back to our usually jobs a bit more next week as we need to earn the money to pay for the stuff!!, head down and working! I wish I was one of the dogs, Lucky, Gem and Shadow have a great life just laying about watching us work!

GEMS HAPPY ABOUT SOMETHING!

Gem sat there grinning at the tank going so I guess she is pleased too, or has she just taken a sneaky chomp out of his leg  ha ha. As if, Gems not cantankerous at all, butter wouldn't melt!

SHELL FINALLY ARRIVED

Finally, there is a lot of finally this evening! May be I have had a hard day...no surely not, its a picnic here at present!!...Shell finally turned up to drain the tank and take it away, the driver doesn't know if I will get money back or how much but that about says it all with Shell really....Just have to deal with whatever, but I will NEVER deal with them again. Good  Bye tank!!!