Week 4, day sixteen

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Exhibit A

It's been drizzling lightly but pretty constantly for two days now, but the plumber - bless 'im - has managed two solid days of work. Why? I dare not ask - I thought tradies didn't do that sort of thing, but maybe you've gotta be tougher in the Mountains. And it was his brithday too (I brought cake - what a suck).

So Mr Bobcat made his long-awaited appearance on Monday (an abbreviated version due to still-tender spine regions, so the backyard landscaping will have to wait in line) and dug out a trench for the plumbing and electrics to be laid along - see Exhibit A. James the Lovely Plumber spent a couple of days digging, laying, filling and generally getting sodden, but I guess that's life as a plumber. The result, as you can clearly see, is a long trench with pipes. And some gravel. And another big pile of dirt (soggier). Possibly approved by council.

 

 
Checked out the forecast for the rest of the week today (I suspect BOM will be a mucho visited site by the end of all this) - we seem to have a lovely patch of showers hovering directly over Blackheath and Katoomba, and nowhere much else. Mat often comments on this as he makes his way up the hill from Penrith: hot, hot, warm, warm, pleasant...raining and mist by Katoomba. But Friday is 'a shower or two' - that sounds almost hopeful!