The contracts have been signed. Now for the serious business of watching half our house being pulled down and rebuilt, while we try to live here. Julius is very excited, he has a new pair of gumboots and his Bob the Builder tool box and hard hat (hard plastic, that is), and is ready to tell the workmen everything he knows, on any topic. A "misunderstanding" arose between us and the builders before the first sod had been turned, which is not necessarily the best start ever made to a building project. That seems to have sorted itself out, and while I was at work today a Bobcat removed every inch of foliage from around the house, along with the side fence, exposing us to our neighbours and to the street in ways we have never known before. (Canberra in winter is not the ideal place for nude sunbathing in the back yard so there should be no surprises for anybody.)
Stay tuned. Further updates will be provided when they are to hand.
