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The foundations are filled with concrete - several trucks arrive one by one and are quickly unloaded. They pump their load into another truck (on the left of the photo) that then pumps it through a long series of hose sections up through the trees, across the site and direct into the waiting trenches. and after about 2 hours the foundations were more or less done! If you wondered - as I did - how they clean the concrete out of the long hose, its easy. The chap in charge says you stick a foam ball in the hose, and the pump pushes it through with air pressure. By the time it pops out at the other end, the hose is clean!

The fence that went for a walk

(with apologies to Andy Goldsworthy) The picket fence that was once a dog compound, and then walked up the field to become a vegetable patch, has now walked back down to become a side to the driveway. We'll tidy up the bank once all the building work is done.

Foundation trenches

The weather improves, and trenches get dug.

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