Fast-forward...

I've been offline but not idle... Our visitors' pavilion is progressing faster than I could ever have hoped for!

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North-West:

South-East:

South-West:

Ground floor (almost) completed

The columns came in Saturday morning.

North-West:

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South-East:

South-West:

Next step: decking. From tomorrow. Yay!

Walls up!

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West:

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East:

Building, African style

I have a plan. I have measurements. The builders have the plan. They have the measurements. Then the foreman tells met "they found it a bit tiny so they increased the size a little". After re-measuring on site, it appears that they increased it by 33%. Baaaaah!

Day 1+

We have only just started (yesterday afternoon) digging the foundations for the guest room (which will in fact be a tiny guest house at the other end of our land). Nothing much to see yet, but I thought it would be fun to document the progression. 

My idea is to take a picture every day (probably less, in the long run; or I'll group them weekly) and post regularly to show how exciting, frustrating, upsetting, and rewarding it is to build something (or, rather, to have something built), no matter how small it is.