The mess that winter causes...

We had the bricks delivered yesterday (Wed) and boy did his little forklift thingy make a mess! Driving from the back of the block down to where the land falls away a little bit and placing the bricks where the pool will be - mud EVERYWHERE! And I literally couldn't watch - I was sure the whole thing was going to tip over OR get bogged OR he was going to run into the alfresco bricked up post - it was giving me heart failure so I decided to clean up instead. In my cleaning up it looked like there was water coming from the pipes in the kids toilet, the bathroom and the laundry (it was kind of pooled around the pipes -wanted to make sure it wasn't the roof!). Bikeman confirmed with the plumber that they were doing a pressure test and did an o-ring. So all ok. Anyway, brick delivery all done, no crashes/bogging but mud and chopped up ground everywhere. And someone had taken it upon themselves the day prior to wire tie the back gate - hmph how rude! And not just a single piece of wire bent around the top a little bit, 3 strong well-tied bits of wire that I couldn't have opened without pliers. Not sure it is in the neighbours of the empty block or someone else. If it is the neighbours, they must think that the gate is on their property due to where our temporary fence is - but no, our property goes to about 2/3 across the gate face, so most of the gate is actually ours. Anyway, no doubt the chopping up done by the brick delivery isn't filling whomever it may be with joy. Tough! That's building. Will just have to wait and see what happens, in 'Days of the Block'..... stay tuned for next time. Oh yes and the brickie was onsite starting the bricking up today. Yee-har!