Off we go again

Having spent what feels like a hard-labour life-sentence (I know, I know, I'm an office-boy pansy...) working with big grey blocks, that's what we started with all over again as soon as the slab was poured.  The workshop/extra storage/music room/weights room/gym/etc-space off the garage on Level 1 still needed a block wall completed, which had to be built on top of the slab, so Lenny and Phil started that on Monday 15th November and we left Lenny to it on his own for Tuesday and Wednesday as well.

Blockwork going up in workshop - behind it will be a bonus little storage area under the Level 3 slab that happened to appear due to the way the slope/footings/slab all worked in together. Kids love it already.

Friday 19th we happened to have Grandpa handy so I conned him into coming out to the block to help - initially just a bit of black-tar waterproofing to warm him gently into it and then sprung a 2.5 cubic metre truck of concrete to fill the new block wall with - bucket by bucket.
Mixer truck driver turned out to be an old student from my second year of teaching, so that was interesting.
No photos of this bit - didn't have time to leave the wheelbarrow, buckets and scaffold 6 feet off the ground to take any.  Just try to imagine Grandpa and I trying to avoid each other, get most of the concrete in the actual blocks, avoid too much of a mess, and not fall off the edge...