A bit of this and a bit of that...(1st - 8th March)
Monday 2nd
A public holiday over here in the west...so like Sunday's we're not supposed to work. However it's Labour Day...so we laboured in other areas. We have a verge collection for general household junk this week, so we put out the old timber that we don't need. It was gone by lunchtime - some lucky man scored it for firewood. I did TADA & ECU stuff for the rest of the day and Mark serviced Tara's car, dropped the car back & put up some shelves for her. Then went over to Murray's to try & identify the source of his electrical problems in their new home.
Tuesday 3rd
Mark went shopping for timber and then commenced constructing the window frames. We can't brick any higher until the window frames go in and once they are ready we will need to hire some scaffolding as Mark's arms won't reach the ceiling! I phoned Midland brick about recycling our old broken bricks and then did ECU work.
Wednesday 4th
Mark is still building window frames...fiddly things! And I am doing ECU work.
Thursday 5th
Off to hire scaffolding and do a trip to the tip with our old bricks & rubble. No luck with the scaffolding, the place Mark visited didn't have what we wanted. So we just did a couple of runs to the tip. Mark pulled down the last of the old outside wall and Nick stacked the bricks ready for cleaning (groan). I just loafed about...well not really but it was an easy day.
Etsuko & I went off to the ballet - Giselle. Not the traditional version, a "twisted take on the classic" performed by Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre. It was very funny and extremely entertaining. By far the best performance I saw this festival.
Friday 6th
Mark finished off the window frames and fitted the side one ready to lay the bricks. I did ECU work. We knocked off early today to have dinner with Joyce before going to see the new musical that Leo is in - Assassins. It was very entertaining.
Saturday 7th
I started cleaning the last lot of bricks. Did 100 today. I average about 20 per hour, so it was a big day. Only about 100 more to go (Sh@#!). Mark cut the 80 year old lintel in half that came out of the front windows..so we can use it for the 2 new windows. He will do "soldier" bricks above both windows to match the existing house. So he had to bend the lintel into a slight arch...not as easy as he thought...finally managed it by arranging a complex ramp and running the Pajero over it. We've recycled as much as we can from the demolition of the old front room to build the 2 new front rooms.
Sunday 8th
Day of rest. I've just realised how slack I've been this week...as I didn't even take any photos. But I did get 3 chapters of my uni course written!
A public holiday over here in the west...so like Sunday's we're not supposed to work. However it's Labour Day...so we laboured in other areas. We have a verge collection for general household junk this week, so we put out the old timber that we don't need. It was gone by lunchtime - some lucky man scored it for firewood. I did TADA & ECU stuff for the rest of the day and Mark serviced Tara's car, dropped the car back & put up some shelves for her. Then went over to Murray's to try & identify the source of his electrical problems in their new home.
Tuesday 3rd
Mark went shopping for timber and then commenced constructing the window frames. We can't brick any higher until the window frames go in and once they are ready we will need to hire some scaffolding as Mark's arms won't reach the ceiling! I phoned Midland brick about recycling our old broken bricks and then did ECU work.
Wednesday 4th
Mark is still building window frames...fiddly things! And I am doing ECU work.
Thursday 5th
Off to hire scaffolding and do a trip to the tip with our old bricks & rubble. No luck with the scaffolding, the place Mark visited didn't have what we wanted. So we just did a couple of runs to the tip. Mark pulled down the last of the old outside wall and Nick stacked the bricks ready for cleaning (groan). I just loafed about...well not really but it was an easy day.
Etsuko & I went off to the ballet - Giselle. Not the traditional version, a "twisted take on the classic" performed by Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre. It was very funny and extremely entertaining. By far the best performance I saw this festival.
Friday 6th
Mark finished off the window frames and fitted the side one ready to lay the bricks. I did ECU work. We knocked off early today to have dinner with Joyce before going to see the new musical that Leo is in - Assassins. It was very entertaining.
Saturday 7th
I started cleaning the last lot of bricks. Did 100 today. I average about 20 per hour, so it was a big day. Only about 100 more to go (Sh@#!). Mark cut the 80 year old lintel in half that came out of the front windows..so we can use it for the 2 new windows. He will do "soldier" bricks above both windows to match the existing house. So he had to bend the lintel into a slight arch...not as easy as he thought...finally managed it by arranging a complex ramp and running the Pajero over it. We've recycled as much as we can from the demolition of the old front room to build the 2 new front rooms.
Sunday 8th
Day of rest. I've just realised how slack I've been this week...as I didn't even take any photos. But I did get 3 chapters of my uni course written!
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