ground works ....getting our very own skip for the bank holiday weekend ...

back a bit - back a bit ....



Adam = the thinker!



but despite trying to bend the lorry round the wall, it's not going to fit!



so it goes down in the street ...



it's still about old shed new shed - its also about a wider driveway. And I only drive a Hyundai GETZ 1.1!

old shed, new shed ....

space at the top of the garden for a new shed ...



view from the wooden half of my odd, garage extension shed ...



one long shed, two doors, and an odd bit in the middle ...



this should be the guttering, for my garage ... who knew!



all levelled off now, with incinerator foundations dug out, and a tree stump chewed to bits ...



an early morning delivery from the granby ... and us still in our pyjamas!



Adam has made short work of turning the old shed into bricks again ...



old bricks - locally produced hardcore!



Ian telling me another rude story ...



the rough with the smooth, adding the top layer of concrete for the new shed base ...



stay tuned for more 'house work' in raggy rat land ...

ground works ....

DAY 1 - say good bye to this lovely but old and rotting front door ...



daisy mary and matty make themselves giggle by saying, 'bye-bye chimney!'
Mummy and Louise made that collaged and stitched house number ...



our man Jamie cuts through concrete, crazy pathing and digs very hard clay to make the foundations for our new porch ...



finally, the hole is deep enough ... note that part of our old tiled step has already disappeared!



Daisy spends an hour in the window sill, watching Jamie mix cement and throw it in the L-shaped hole ...



DAY 2 - The Foremen show up and scrutinise the brick laying done by Mike ...



Builders' Tea, Strong, White-with-one ... in Wessex FM Mugs ...



Jamie digs a hole in the lawn for a new soak-away ...

House Work ....

there will be no more blue paint on my house ...




becaue as you can see, damien and darren have been hard at work ... but dont worry, they didnt go up there in the high winds we have had this weekend !

Oh Blogger - I've Been Tagged!

but as i am always running around trying to catch up with things i am not going to do it, but feel free to read connie's (clothmatters), who tagged me, and do one your self if you like ... it just takes me ages to do a nice hot link, imagine pasting and fiddling with 5 friends!

and in the middle of making that lobster costume i got tagged by caroline of uniqart to do the '8 things' thing, and i loved the way she did hers with a blog entry and pic for each thing. my favorate was a lovely pic of her daughter. but of course in the middle of the lobster costume it was all sew, sew, sew followed by looking after my babies, and i hadly answered any emails and posted just enough so you wouldn't forget me!

anyway - in the spirit at least of being tagged - thanks connie and caroline for picking me ... anyway - im just going off to upload 8 pictures which will also be a bit of a 'round up', since after finnishing that lobster i 'crashed' and have felt rather ill ...

said good bye to my L reg fiesta at the end of last month ... we covered many hundered miles together and i will miss her. she was the first car bought just for me !!! and no - i didn't break it ....

a canadian fan of my work - i am soon about to make something really special for him, guy named chris :-)

a rat bag that was delayed by sea creatures got a lovely unique lining the other week, before being sent off in the mail ...

i make all my children help me with house work ... daisy is fond of putting knickers on her head even tho i say they are knickers, and not a hat ....

three blank canvases i need to get painted and collaged for phil in london .... soon ...

some ceramic painting i did with louise - she gave the striped mug to grandad-gerald for his borthday and he said he liked it ... we even have to fire them in the oven 24 hours after painting and it came out nice and shiney not brown and burned like i thought it would ...
the babies watching a man take down the corner post, and re-build it, to make my driveway wider for a newer car, last week ....
some goregous girls that arrived in the post last week - i swopped with tantehilde - aren't they sweet and summery? like the summer we havent had ....