A crisp frost heralds another day that’s
‘one out of the box’ on the Coromandel. Perfect blue sky from corner to corner… driving to the new section I stop to admire the areas of cool blue frost contrasting with the warm yellowy green grass where the sun has already been.
Whilst Duncan and Louis were the only ones working on
site, it was reasonably easy to keep the building site looking less like a
building site and more like a garden: quite tidy and mud-free.
Now we have massive trucks coming with 'fill' leaving gouges big enough to plant potatoes in (the fill is to level off the ground behind
the house), diggers on site carving up the driveway, bricklayers on site with
endless plastic wrap flying around like streamers (from the pallets of bricks)
and plumbers and electricians with their own ‘off-cuts’ and extras…
However, all this level of activity has
also meant lots and lots of progress.
Here are a few recent photos:
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| We now have stairs... So our new building is starting to feel like a house |
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| The building is wrapped (my own Christo for all you modern art lovers out there) |
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| The bricklayers (or brickies as they call themselves) are on site |
We have also started planting more things
in the garden, not necessarily a compatible activity with the above! Three
lemon trees (that furit at different times so we should have lemons most of the
year), a giant bird of paradise (that the new owners of our old house were
digging out), and Duncan has bought 3 fruit trees (one a greengage that was a
present from my Mum).
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| This plant is too big for that wheelbarrow! |
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| We wheel the barrow round to our new section |
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| The bird of paradise in it's new home - let's hope it survives the bricklayers and scaffolding. I look forward to summer and how amazing it is going to look against the white painted brick... |
