The house is coming on nicely. We had a site meeting with the Supervisor this week who (although only appeared to be in his late 20's) had everything in hand and seemed to be on the ball with the trades and the schedule of works. He thought that the brickwork for first floor level would be finished in less than two weeks - we were godsmacked at that, but then the next day, the brickies completed an entire outside wall of the house. So it looks like they will meet that schedule. Then we have to pay the biggest staged payment of them all (gulp!) and the scaffolding arrives and they go up further. I asked him what stage we'd be at by Xmas, and he said it we didn't have the roof on, it would be imminent.
This is a picture of Paul's office (well, will be!). See, I am spoiling him with a golf course view!
Although, there could be a problem coming up with the build, as the last few blokes on the site have looked a bit dodgy!
They look like a right shower, don't they?They were a special delivery from Nanny B. Poor old Adam had all the trucks from Bob, but they don't sell the people (doesn't make any sense at all really, does it? Welcome to Australia!!!). So SuperNan came to the rescue again and packaged over a complete set of the characters for him. He loves them - as the picture below shows his glee when he unwrapped them, but the trouble is, he insists on taking them to the building site with him. We then spend twenty minutes looking at what the builders have done and another forty minutes trying to find the characters that Adam has buried in the sand! I nearly gave up and abandoned Spud today; he was only saved by a last minute ferret about with my foot!
The builders need all the help that can get to have the house finished on time, so Bob and Wendy are reporting to site first thing on Monday morning to help; although Bob might melt a bit in his donkey jacket! We showed some Aussie friends and they did comment that Bob should really be wearing shorts, a singlet and thongs ;-)
He looks very pleased with himself, doesn't he?
So apart from the 'norm', it's been quite an uneventful week. Sam fell base over apex on his way home from school on Wednesday and has scraped all the skin off his chin. From a distance, it looks as though he is sporting a little goatee beard! Sam also got a certificate for doing really well in Indonesian class this week! He's done well as the other kids have been learning Indonesian for a few years now, so he's a star to even understand what they are saying! The school photos went well, apparently; we shall see what the pictures end up like! Good job they were last week, before the chin incident!
Darcie's class made vegetable soup this week (for the letter of the week 'V'). Next week it's whale sandwiches ;-) They have both been practising hard for next weeks athletics carnival. The weather's been quite nice this week and we've had to resort to sun tan lotion for the first time in months (although the weekend has taken a bit of a turn for the worse - must know we wanted to go out in the boat!).
Paul, Sam and Adam all went for a haircut today. Adam looks about 5, Sam had a crew cut and looks like a teenager and Paul looks like a newborn (in as much as he's got that much hair now!).
And whilst we were out....... well, see for yourslef what Darcie had done! She was VERY brave!
So apart from the 'norm', it's been quite an uneventful week. Sam fell base over apex on his way home from school on Wednesday and has scraped all the skin off his chin. From a distance, it looks as though he is sporting a little goatee beard! Sam also got a certificate for doing really well in Indonesian class this week! He's done well as the other kids have been learning Indonesian for a few years now, so he's a star to even understand what they are saying! The school photos went well, apparently; we shall see what the pictures end up like! Good job they were last week, before the chin incident!
Darcie's class made vegetable soup this week (for the letter of the week 'V'). Next week it's whale sandwiches ;-) They have both been practising hard for next weeks athletics carnival. The weather's been quite nice this week and we've had to resort to sun tan lotion for the first time in months (although the weekend has taken a bit of a turn for the worse - must know we wanted to go out in the boat!).
Paul, Sam and Adam all went for a haircut today. Adam looks about 5, Sam had a crew cut and looks like a teenager and Paul looks like a newborn (in as much as he's got that much hair now!).
And whilst we were out....... well, see for yourslef what Darcie had done! She was VERY brave!
