Still no consent

The bloody council - good grief. On Monday they told us the engineer needed an original of the engineering report (not just a copy) and they wanted us to indicate where the bund was to go. What is a bund you may ask. Well apparently - if we get one in 100 year rains the water tank may overflow and we need a raised area of dirt to collect and pool the overflow.

Hello - we are in a drought!

So - Econobuilt go all the way there to drop it in, in person and they guy is away till Wednesday at 1pm. Well they go back today and he's still away!!!! Unbelievable.

So Econobuild guys Neil, Warren and David arrived to mark out the barn so they can do the profiles and footings (expecting the consent out today) and we realise that we had not allowed for the battering of the friggin great big swimming pool - I mean water tank hole - so we had to move the whole thing to fit behind the viewing corridor line and not into the hole. Yikes - it was touch and go there for a bit.

This is them negotiating with the engineer trying to figure out how to dig the footings closer to the swimming pool. Woops - water tank I mean. George has the hat on. Beautiful morning hey!!

After they all left we started on the weed eating around the boundary. Hired a weed eater/scrub cutter thingy - George has all the safety gear - good man!
This is what is left after the scrub cutting before I came along and picked it all up and put it in a very large weed pile in the middle of the block.

Getting the scrub cutter between the grisilinias was particularly awkward - but George did a great job - poor trees were being suffocated by grass and thistles - now you can actually see them.
Wow - doesn't it make such a difference to the fenceline. This is about 1/8th we think - of the boundary done today.
We were knackered after a few hours of that in the boiling sun so we knocked off at about 4pm. Oh - we had to get Clifton back to re level one corner for us due to the movement of the barn again...he is a darling - his wife is about to have a baby and he came out and did this for us at short notice. He's getting a case of beer at the end of all this.


So - tomorrow I move work offices to the new office, go to the post office and post a whole pile of stuff we have sold on Trade Me, meet the new landlady at 9am, get some more keys cut, have breakfast, do the banking, meet Telstra Clear to hook up phones, meet PABX guy to un-hook PABX at home, meet internet guys, be there for office table delivery, organise some more hay, see Garbo, oh - and the most important job of the day - mark out the fence posts for the guys to do in the weekend. I have 60 pigtails and some tape so I can see how it will look. We started with spray paint today but the grass is so long...think this way will be better.