It's Sunday and it's pouring down. The photos above are more from the Groundbreaking.

So time to do the blog even though nothing very exciting has happened - on the site anyway. There are a lot of small, unexciting, but essential, things happening behind the scenes, but nothing very photogenic, if you know what I mean.

For example, last Friday....................

Call two new roofers, the previous four letters I sent out to get quotes having only yielded one solid quote. Two calls to roofers who can't do the job.
Also call two new scaffolding hire places - it has to be ones which not only hire the gubbins but also erects it for you.
The timber frame company has to specify the exact size of the scaffolding and the height of the platforms.
R is still sorting out the staircase which is his current bete noir. Planning Control wants a bigger door at the bottom of the staircase so a wheelchair can get it. We think PC is wrong and study the Building Regs for half an hour to find out.
Call the timber frame company several times to find out how they have put together the first floor where it meets the walls, so we can check it out for insulation, airtightness and thermal bridging.
Call our local friendly Jewsons to get exact costs for the plinth blocks.
Also to Build Center for comparison of costs.
An email coming in from the last of the bricklayers, leads to: A Decision!
Call Justin to give him the good news that we want him to roll up with his trowel as soon as possible.
Another call to the timber frame company to make sure that their drawings are on the way for us to check for accuracy.
An enormous lorry full of concrete arrives to fill the trench for the footings for our new garden wall. R works like stink to level the concrete, then collapses in well-deserved torpor with Sudoku.
I design the kitchen and photograph it to send to my mum for her expert checking.
The most likely plasterer rings to say he had got the sample of the eco-plaster we might want to use but needs a sample of the board it is to be rendered onto.
Source a bit of board and arrange to go and collect it from Stowmarket.
Call JR to find exact size of vastu fence and distance from the house walls.
Start list for timber companies of all timber required for house, to get best value.

................ all essential but not exactly front-page stuff.

JR came round to survey the foundation trenches and he and R spent hours putting four masonry nails into the concrete to show the exact corners of the building. These have to be very precise for Sthapatya Veda reasons.

Next post - more on the principles of Maharishi Sthapatya Veda.