The whole project is looking fantastic, and the focus today is on the children's room: This view is looking across the kitchen to the new windows along the east side of the activity room - where the old lounge used to be. The main hall is to the...
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Day 45: How time can be used (or, too often, wasted)
Monday: it's back to work for the team and it's great to see a busy site and to have a growing insight into how things slot together. I had hoped to show you some more pics of what is happening inside the rooms, but even with the help of an expert...
Day 44: My fantasy political party!
For a few years now I have had a fantasy about a political party called Greens with Guns. Just letting you in on the secret could quite possibly earn me my own small dossier with MI6, but sometimes you just have to take risks. Last night's...
Day 43: Dave doesn’t do knitting!
I got it wrong. Dave does needlepoint, not knitting. So I shall go back through the old posts and change the terminology before submitting the record of our building to the Bodleian library. I also got the size of the pipes wrong - because who...
Day 42: Multi-tasking is (only some of) Us!
Despite the popular idea that all women are good at it, I can't do multi-tasking, and am full of admiration for those who can. Foremen have to do it. Although, as Graham points out, working foremen, like himself and Gordon, often don't get the...
Day 41: Graham is a different kind of Foreman
It is interesting to have two foremen on site. Their methods are very different. Whereas, in the absence of the scaffolders who were supposedly to be there first thing this morning, I suspect that Gordon might have been shouting down the phone,...
Day 40: Come back Gordon!
You're a great general. And I'll never call you grumpy again! I don't mean to say that the team can't work without him. It's just that without him doing his Rommel thing, the site looks . . . well, more like a building site. And if there's one...
Day 39: No Pimms this Friday!
Alas, it's raining and not really the sort of day one lounges about on a wheelbarrow with a glass of Pimms. But our fantastic team soldiers on. The interior spaces continue to be defined, like the bulk storage room (you can never have too much...
Day 38: How Dean Court Social Club will forever be part of Oxfordshire
I got it wrong yesterday. Sorry. If you ever use the recycling site at Stanton Harcourt you will know that rubble and soil do not go to landfill - stuff like that is re-used for landscaping projects. This is what goes to landfill:But if the...
Day 37: We will be letting in the sunshine . . .
. . . well, eventually we will. There will be windows on the south-facing wall, so one of these days there will be real happy smiling little faces peering in from the playground. This may not happen for a while, for reasons both of cost and of...