Its been a while

Its been a while since my last post..... things have been slow and we have had to voice our disapproval. Not always an easy situation but at times necessary! At the begining of May Chris & I could see that we may hit a few delays so we sent an email to Errol detailing what we expected to be done by our return on the 7th May.

We left on our trip to Namibia - a trip that took us through 5 passport control (exit SA, enter & exit Zambia, enter & exit Botswana and enter Namibia) to a beautiful setting on the Chobe river. On our return to SA, we went past the house to see what progress had been made. To our dismay - BASICALLY NOTHING!

The major issues that could become critical were the stairs, celler slab and kitchen beam. Peter also went away, however failed to instruct his staff clearly on what to do. We then had to get cracking so not to created any further delays and so got Errol on board to build the stairs while the others did the celler slab. Needless to say Peter was annoyed (as were we) and the tension on site was rather bad for a week or so. Subsequently, Errol has drawn up a programme giving us an expected move-in date of 1 October 2006........

So on Thursday the Super Slabs chaps arrived on site and placed the ribs & blocks in place for the garage/studio slab - note all the props to hold it up:

They were supposed to work over the weekend as well but on Saturday we had the cold front hit us with a vengence bringing unseasonal rain so today they got started on the mainbedroom slab:

So much for our famous NFC rule.... We have been contemplating the size of the kitchen and been rather worried that its too small. We met with Clive again and had a serious brain storming session. It was eventually decided that we would knock down my pantry and build the entire kitchen out a few metres. I am sad to loose the separate scullery/pantry design but realise that a bigger open plan kitchen is the answer.

So for now we plod along and hope for the best......