The finished slab

This morning we drove out to the building site to take our first look at the completed slab, and to see how the driveway has held up under the more or less incessant rain we've had over the past week.

Part of the lower section of the drive is flooded, but the slope is reasonably dry, and there haven't been any major landslips where the hill has been cut away, so hopefully the lorry that delivers the framing timber on Monday will be able to get up the hill.

We took a couple of photos of the slab. The first one gives you a pretty good idea of how big our house is going to be (or how small, if you happen to live in anything bigger than a caravan). It also makes Iain laugh like a drain, because it caught me off-guard in a moment of excessive Gumby-ness.

A quick reminder: Monty Python's Gumby family

Spot the family resemblance?

The second photo gives a close-up view of some of the pipes and wiring. Iain's standing just outside where the kitchen window will be, and I'm stood just outside the bathroom. The grey pipes in the foreground are the toilet cistern inlet pipe on the left and the toilet waste pipe (the big one!) The short green pipe with the coil of cable coming out of it is the telephone cabling. We have no idea why it's coming up next to the toilet, but no doubt it will be handy if Iain ever gets a hankering for pizza while he's sitting on the bog! The thick black cable is the electricity.

Tomorrow we're meeting a builder on site, who is going to give us some tips for putting up the framing, and then on Monday the frame and trusses are being delivered, and we'll be starting work. Watch this space!