A peek into our world.
Things are really starting to move on the house now. A few weeks ago they starting brickwork, which should actually be finished by now, I just haven't had a chance to go check since these photos were taken. All we need is for the roof tiles to be delivered and installed and we are at lock up...YAY!
Yep, that's right...We have a house frame up. Have spoken to the builder and he seems to believe we will have a roof on and walls up in about two weeks. I find that a little quick to believe, but he is quite adamant that the work will progress that fast. At this stage we are looking to be in before November.
Sometime back in 2006, for reasons too numerous to outline in this post, I had become fed up with managing the site I had and began looking for an alternative. I had set up movabletype for a friend of mine, and had spent a small amount of time playing around with the system to see if it would be suitable for my needs. One of my main requirements was a photo gallery which had the same back-end feel as the rest of the site, so my search began and ended very shortly afterwards with the discovery of Doug Bowman's excellent Photo Gallery Templates. And this is where to start! Download Doug's templates, install them, and then lock yourself away for a week and pour over every aspect of how they work. I like to think of them as a crash course in movabletype templating and the use of plugins. I certainly learned a lot from them.
Guess what?....After months of waiting, we finally have a slab. It's not much at the moment, but in three to four weeks work should start moving ahead quite rapidly and before you know it our slab will evolve into a house. Once I get the gallery sorted out over the next few weeks, I will start posting pictures of the progress.
With winter coming, some of the guys and I decided it would be a great time to get out and do some four wheel driving for a weekend. Unfortunately there wasn't too much mud about, but the recent rains had made the clay nice and slippery in lots of places which gave us a few good challenges.
