As Sydney sits through another week of very wet and windy weather, we find ourselves inside – grumbling about how we hate the rain. Oddly enough, it’s a change for us. We’re usually big fans of wet and rainy days, where you can sit by the fire and enjoy a cup of tea (or coffee in my case) and listen to the rain beat down on the Colorbond roof (a big plus in our book, and a major reason why we went with Colorbond over tile).

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I have no idea how long it takes to brick a house, but with the weather we’ve had this week here in Sydney, I reckon the brickies made good progress.

We stopped by the house last Tuesday evening and, at that point, not much work had been done. In fact no actual work had been started on the house, aside from new piles of brick surrounding the house in preparation for the first good day of weather. Of course, if you live in Sydney, you’d know that we really haven’t had that ‘first good day of weather’ since Tuesday. It’s been cold, rainy, windy – and even the odd waterspout. But apparently Colebee lives in this bubble of reasonably dry weather. I’m not so sure I’ll like that when it comes to landscaping, but while we’re building – I really don’t mind.

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With our friend Kate out from San Francisco this week, we got an early jump on the weekend and decided to make a trip out to Stonecutters Ridge to show her around and see the progress on the house. We were pleasantly surprised to see that the roof had been finished being framed, and the windows that were leaning up against the fence last week, were now in place. We timed our trip perfectly, as we arrived just as the bricky showed up to drop off some tools and have a look around the house, before he starts the brickwork next week!

Pulling up to the house, the first thing we noticed was that the front veranda was completed and ready for the brick pillars to be installed around the metal supports. The house now looks like the Liberty should look barring, well, everything else.

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