Old window back in for a while.

Dad, do these look okay?

Half new wall up to (old) ceiling height

First bit of 'real' brick laying!

More pictures for Terry

Latest version of swing

Chicken run - New gate

Front wall - layout I-beam

Front wall - layout

Moving fridge.........finally!

Alison came up with a great idea of moving the large fridge from the annex into the house.  If she had this idea sooner it would have saved a lot of cold trips to the annex over the winter :-)

I have finished painting the wall and replaced the piece of counter top since I took this photo.

Before and after photo.

Lego portrait of.....

Don't ask me what brought this on but I spent about 4 hours making this lego portrait two days ago.  I used up all of the kids black & white lego. 

It would cost me £63 to buy the pieces to make it out of new lego!!!  But I might have to do it to keep the kids happy.

If you look at it too close-up then it doesn't look very good, but from across the room it looks great.

I am taking orders if anyone wants to commission a portrait, the normal price is £499, but for family it is only £450 ;-)

Lego timer for Scalextric track

Zac got Scalextric for Xmas and Liam got Mindstorms NXT so the obvious thing to do was to built a lap timer!  It worked so much better than we could have hoped. We used a light sensor from the lego which was sampling every 3 thousands of a second which meant the lap times were accurate to more than a hundredth of a second!!!

Poor Zac was eventually begging me to stop racing his cars at their limit as I was crashing them every few laps at high speed trying to get a faster lap time ;-)  Thank goodness my brother or dad aren't here else we would still be racing!

I might add a video if I get the chance.

Wood turning bowl

This was my first wood turning attempt, it ended up being Alison's Xmas present :-)  It was made from rosewood I was given by a friend a few years ago and the turning tools came from Alison's dad.

Draining the flood

It took a while but we managed to dig a trench in order to drain the bottom of the garden. It flowed for 45minutes!!! but it took a lot longer to dig the trench.