16th December 2009

Dave went back to the section on Monday to await the arrival of a water pipe and we both went up on Wednesday to welcome the telephone cable. But somehow it mysteriously leapt into the trench while we had our backs turned - we slipped off to a local shop during a downpour in the morning and lo and behold we discovered it was there mid-afternoon!

So we now have an unconnected electric cable, a connected water pipe leading to a tap and an unconnected telephone cable.

Of course there was the small job of filling the trench which required a lot of muscle work

and a new use for the mower (and gave Dave a rare chance to drive it).

We met our builder on site, which was very exciting and made it seem as if our new house was almost on the way.

And before and after the downpour, there was some awesome weather (summer at last) which allowed us to mow almost all of the section (with two jungly exceptions) and it really does look rather good now.



And the gums are growing apace. Yay.