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Once again the weather forecast was for fine weather, and even better it was over a weekend! Not that what day it is means all that much to us still, but being a weekend it does mean that we can rope in some others that currently have to do that work thing… This weekend’s task was to get the base of the pump-shed installed, ready for some concrete to be poured into it sometime this week. OOOohh! Concrete!

Well, when I say “rope into”, we did have to put in 5 hours of hard labour into the front garden first, before we headed out to do the shed. No, that’s right. Not our front garden! These guys, they’re not silly!

But with a bit of help from Jeff, and a bit it of “help” from Jake and Lexi, and Mr. Level and Mr. Square, we managed to get the base in, square, and level. Much to my (and our builder that just happened to be out there) surprise. Of course it will probably all move about in the wind or something soon, but when we left it it was bang on, honest!

Not a bad job, if I do say so myself! Of course it’ll look far more impressive when the shed is actually up… And will be even more impressive when it stays up, as of course it will!

Being out there also let us review progress on the main building too, of course. The day’s thrill this time was gravel! And lots of it! All in big piles just waiting to be spread across the foundations ready for the concrete this week. I just hope that the foundations here are as square and level as what we managed ourselves! Given the amount of dirt and stones we had to move from the patch scraped by the digger driver for the pump-shed base plot to get it level, I give it about a 50/50 chance!

Things seem like they’re moving fast at this stage!

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