Excavations

The builders were back this week digging a trench along the kitchen corridor for the installation of a new drain which will connect with the main drain they replaced last week. Under the concrete were what looked like flagstones, but on closer examination they were some kind of manufactured stone - furnace bricks, the builders suggested. Under that was bare earth with big rocks in it, suggesting that the ground preparation wasn't particularly thorough. Foundations? You must be kidding!
Anyway, the pipe's laid and the guys will be back on Monday to replace the concrete.

Roofing put off until Monday. Central heating set for April. Can't come soon enough - I am fed up having to walk down to the boiler room in the dark to turn the heating on.