Operation Clean-up

This past week, Errol truly did live up to his nicknames. For the past few weeks we have 2 of Errol's guys helping us keep the site relatively tidy but as I explained some posts back, rubble never stops multilpying. Last tuesday and wednesday we had Jorum cart 15 loads of rubble (approx 45m3) away and this was still not the end of it. Knowing we had not got to the bottom of the rubble/mess,Errol oganised a team of 7 men for saturday & sunday = Operation clean-up. The guys spent the entire day on saturday and sunday piling the rubble in the driveway for the "final" rubble removal due to take place this wednesday. While the guys were cleaning on saturday they told me Errol's one nickname is "Mr Clean"

As you can see, cleaning rubble is truly exhausting.... On thursday Errol & I popped across the road for lunch and when we came back we found Richard & Victor catching a nap in the sun during their lunch break.

The reason for all this tidy up is that by thursday the intention is to have all the rubble producing work complete. We really want to feel like we in the final stage (with about 6 weeks to expected completion date) and the pool guys are also due to start digging our pool They will put the soil removed for the pool around the garden for easy spreading. If we still have a mountain of rubble lying around we can't start the pool..... At one stage even Chris got stuck in helping.

To show our appreciation for the hard-work to date, we bought the guys - cleaners/plaster/electrician/ceiling - some rolls and meat and they had a little braai on site before leaving on saturday afternoon. As you can see in the background of the braai, with carport gone, we finally have a real sense of our space. I mention this because while setting out the pool last thursday I was worried we were losing too much garden with the pool, but I now see we actually still have a nice sized garden for any future baby Atkinson's to run around.