There have been huge excitements with progress today but I'm going to hide most of them from you as Sparrows en masse are arriving to inspect the works tomorrow. I will however show you the siege engine that is being constructed in the living room - clearly Alan had a hand in the design here and we can now sling missiles at any potential visitors.-
If you look at the pic on the right you can just see the reinforcement bars - it is actually the 'Final Staircase Solution'. Originally the plan was to use a pre-cast concrete stair because, our architect informed us, it was as 'cheap as chips' - much cheaper and simpler than an oak staircase which was my original plan. Somewhere along the way though, it proved impossible to anchor effectively at the top and so now we're being cast in-situ. So...umm... we're paying the chippie to make the formwork rather than the staircase.... ummm..... ah well, I'm sure it's going to be good when it's finished.
Unless of course it really IS a siege engine...
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