Digger update

Thought I'd post a few more piccies of the menacing digger as it got closer and closer to the house! The whole building is gone now and was left as a pile of bricks and rubble over the weekend. As the workmen decided not to fence it in next to our house I let K and B have a wander over it while I sorted out bits and pieces in the garden. K had a huge space to practise her "cantering" and "jumping".

Thursday - the noise was amazing as it crashed through the roof of the building.


Next to the kitchen bay - this is when Allie decided to leave the room for good!


Sunday morning - a pile of rubble. We were quite taken aback by how large the area looked when flattened.

Early Monday morning - a lovely view while washing up the breakfast bits!

Monday morning - Allie has been coaxed back into the kitchen to watch some of the quieter goings on of testing the ground for toxins.

Having been told this morning that the noise level will drop now the digger has cleared away the majority of the rubbish and no there won't be a pneumatic drill to dig up the foundations, I'm sitting here listening to the wonderful sound of ... a pneumatic drill (and have been for the last couple of hours!).

After the pneumatic drill stopped the great thudding of the "claw" began to get rid of more foundations. The scene from Jurasic Park sprang to mind - when the T-rex slowly thunders closer and closer to the kids in the car and the vibrations made the water in the glass move - this was happening to us!

At least the builders are jolly, as builders generally are.