Bricks, bricks & more bricks...(9th - 15th Feb)

Sunday 8th
So much for a day off - Mark ended up taking the entire roof off and I carted timber from the front yard to the back & stacked it ready to reuse.


Monday 9th
5 packs of bricks delivered. 2 packs moved inside the new front rooms.


Tuesday 10th
I didn't do any work this morning as I took Joyce to the doctor about her leg.

Mark started pulling down the outside leaf of bricks from our bedroom wall as we need more old bricks for the external wall. I cleaned bricks when I got home.


Wednesday 11th
I cleaned bricks and Mark laid a couple of courses of bricks. We knocked off at 10am and got cleaned up as we took Joyce to the Lyons Eye Institute for her eye injection. Amazing the last visit and we finally sorted out the system and got through in only 2hrs. Back to the bricks in the early evening once it had cooled down a little!

Thursday 12th
I cleaned bricks & Mark laid a couple of courses of bricks before heading off to do some Cobra work. I went and did the grocery shopping. Mark did another couple of courses of bricks when he got home.

Friday 13th
Tara's birthday today. Happy Birthday Tara!

Mark worked on the Cobra again today, so we just did a couple of hours work on the house in the morning before he headed off.

I pulled up bricks from the back paving and then got cleaned up and headed off to the uni to return & pick up some books for my ECU job.

Mark laid a few more bricks and put the meter box in position when he got home. The walls are slowly growing!

Bree dropped in as she & Tom are off to dinner to celebrate Valentine's day. Linda arrived and we went off to the Ballet at the Quarry with a picnic hamper & champagne. Mark stayed home and had a few (@#!) quiet ales with his mates.

Saturday 14th
Happy Valentine's Day to all our loved ones. We mostly pottered about today as it threatened to rain on us all day. So we cleaned bricks (yet again), removed the last of the render from the front of the house, pulled out more bricks from the bedroom wall and discussed what we are going to do with the front steps and the roof.

Sunday 15th
Day off. Mark is doing all sorts of calculations etc. to work out angles for the front roof and I am updating our blog!

Tonight we are off to see Chick Corea & John McLaughlin's 5 peace band with Jill & Wayne. It's an open air concert in Kings Park and luckily the weather is great again today.

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