Making pad stones for metal beams to rest on

I couldn't find the size of pad stone I need so I am molding them over the next few days.  I found a great online calculator that you enter the dimensions of your void and it tells you in kg's how much sand, cement and stone to mix.

I have bees!!! Hopefully they stay :-)

Bernard (my mentor from Bee Keepers Association) and I tried to get them to 'walk' into the hive but they just stayed on the sheet, so at 10:30pm we dumped them in the hive.  They were very calm and compliant which was good.

This morning all is quite but that is because I have blocked the hive entrance to force them to stay, I will open it after 24 hours once they are used to the hive and then hopefully they will stay.

Wall ties

What are the odds?!?!

The screw must have gripped well when put in :-)

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.