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25 January 2005
We were
a bit lazy over the Christmas period, and enjoyed plenty of visitors
who called in to see how things were going.
Then Jonni and I both got a bit anxious to get back to some bricklaying.
The south wall of the kitchen was next on the list. It was pretty fiddly as
we had to leave
openings for plumbing pipes.
And as there will be sink and cupboards from the window down, we cut long
half bricks
to fit behind the stud wall. Also Jonni put timber strips between a couple
of courses of bricks
to make it easier to attach the cement sheet onto which the tiles will be
fixed.
6 February 2005
This wall is finished for now. At the moment we are only concerned in getting
the house to lock-up.
Later we will continue the bricks as far up as we can go to prevent the birds
from nesting on top.
At the moment there are nine nests perched on top of our brick walls around
the house (all blackbirds)
We completed the east wall of the kitchen which had been started many months
ago.
The wall at the left of the photo will be the very last one to build as we
use it to sweep all the
bits of chopped off brick and cleaned up mortar out of.
The next big obstacle will be the high sloping walls either end of the main
living area.