I finished the hand clutching the brick at the end of the week.
The brick is an actual brick, the hand is Milliput.
I thought the bricklayer was going to build the arch on Friday but he doesn’t want to until the scaffolding is removed from the side of the house, in case dragging the scaffolding down damages the arch or the sculpture, which sounds reasonable.
We have been unbelievably cold recently. We do not have a side door to the utility, which includes the bit of wall with the glass panel. We do have a wall there now, closed off with a wooden board with a huge gap at the top and bottom. We live in an open plan house and the weather has dipped below freezing for several days in the evening. The side door cannot be replaced in the utility until the scaffolding is down, either. The scaffolding cannot come down until the corner tiles for the dormer are up. The corner tiles for the dormer were due to be couriered to the site last week. The builder, who is on holiday in Spain for the second time during this build, has been unable to urge the tile manufacturers by telephone from abroad, which is a source of amazement to the lads on site, who have done their best.
Have you seen a film called The Money Pit, with Tom Hanks and Shelly Long? Exactly like that. Exactly.
Fortunately I have the finger to give them all. Four in fact. And a thumb.
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