A photo a day - Swimming...sorta

37 degrees in Melbourne
$15 blow up pool from a $2ish type shop
3 happy kids
PRICELESS

NKOTB - 24 days and counting

I thought that it was probably about time for another house update (although I suspect if you know me in real life you would have heard enough bitching and moaning to last a lifetime).

So the build flow goes like this:

1. Start building with #1 site supervisor
2. House seems to be moving VERY quickly - everybody is telling us that we'll be in by Christmas
3. Some weird things start happening - scaffolding comes down before bricking is finished, house is painted before some plastering is finished, house is half tiled and left for ages
4. #1 site supervisor gets sacked, apparently due to the half assed job on our house (structurally we're fine but everything has been done ass about face (you think???)
5. #2 site supervisor starts. It's just before Christmas and the house is at a standstill with no work being done what-so-ever.
6. #3 site supervisor starts. He tells us that it will take at least to Christmas to get the house to where it should be.
7. We find out that no work is being done as the site was shut down by WorkSafe or something similar. There is two weeks where no work is done.
8. We are given dates for tradies and are told that we still should be in by contract date (21.03.12)
9. Tradies never turn up on arranged dates or if they do they only work for 30ish minutes.
10. Carpenters get sacked for not turning up for job.
11. #4 site supervisor starts. He seems to be more senior than anyone we're seen and his sole job is to get our house completed.

So this is where we are at now. There are 24 days to the end of contract date. I don't think the house will be ready.

Most current pic of the front of the house. Looks so far away still.

A photo a day - Ouch

Big mofo splinter under my nail. Have no idea how that's going to come out.

A photo a day - Nice spot for a rest

 Excuse the blurry pic but I needed to zoom in to be able to share and we all know how *cough* great *cough* iPhones and the zoom camera function is.

The whole time we where there, this Pelican sat on top of the street light just watching all the goings on at the beach.

A photo a day - Say cheese....I mean sauce

Cute and sauce covered do not belong in the same pic

A photo a day - What's wrong with this picture

You'd be a bit freaked out if you weren't paying attention

A photo a day - Vice

Vice: a practice or a behavior or habit considered immoral, depraved, or degrading in the associated society. Hmmm, do you think my coke zero falls into this category?

A photo a day - And today we have another stellar paint job

It's awesome eh? Even Imogen thinks so.
Can't you tell by that look of rapture?

A photo a day - Be alert, not alarmed

Ahhh no, screw that.    

Be alarmed.

A photo a day - Ahh the serenity

God I love Williamstown. How gorgeous is this tree lined street? 

That's what I miss with living in a new estate.