Things have started up again now after the traditional three-week Builders' Break over Christmas. Last week was very exciting, but more from the undergraound point of view. The local mole population were probably feeling very put out. A Bloke-with-a-digger arrived on Monday morning and started on the water main. He was great, and as a friend of ours said, "You can't beat a good Bloke With A Digger. He put in trenches for water electricity and telephone, sorted out how the sewage from the caravan was going to work and pulled up the stumps of the trees which were cut down before Christmas.

We now have a five-ton diseased tree stump on the land..... Better than a five-ton diseased tree stump _in_ the land I suppose. The picture above shows our lovely new shed overshadowed by the stumps.



The water was the most exciting trench because of being about 150 metres long and having to come through the local shrubland which is now looking a bit sorry for itself.

Anyway Craig was great - very neat and tidy, and we now wait for the various statutory undertakers to come up with their sides of the bargains and connect the ends of the various pipes and wires to give us power and water and phone.

And what is the point of that, I hear you say, when you haven't got the House yet. You can't even put the phone on a tree stump because they've all been pulled up. That folks is the next story - The Caravan.