Self Build

It's week one of the build and the footings have been poured. It's been raining ever since and I've spent most evenings bailing out. Finally the weather clears and the builder returns. We're not building in blockwork, but polystyrene from a company called Beco Wallform. Sorting your levels out when your first layer of bricks is floating in two inches of water in the footings isn't easy. But somehow the builder manages and we're off. The bricks -- which slot together like Meccano to leave a cavity which is to be filled with concrete -- go up quickly.