28th Nov 2011

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28^th Nov 2011

Last week we saw a flurry of activity with the new house as you can see from the photo. I neglected to mention previously that when I was looking over the approved and stamped plans we had picked up from the certifiers office, I discovered the wrong set of plans had been submitted for approval by the structural engineer (and theoretically checked by the architect). By this stage the builder had been onsite and carried out some preliminary work as mentioned previously and to cut a long story short the builder wasn’t prepared to continue until he had a correct set of plans and specifications to build to, which is fair enough. Needless to say we had a few cranky emails flying about the place. So to see the sub-contractors onsite last Tuesday was great and at least indicated the issue had been sorted, over the next few days they constructed a concrete sleeper retaining wall which will have a fence on top once completed. I presume the idea is to then fill out to the retaining wall so the whole area is flat. Although they are not onsite today they are aiming to get the slab down before Xmas (they keep telling me this).

My latest oil painting

While we were in McLarenvale SA we checked out a few wineries. During one brief sampling session that latest several hours we got talking art with the very congenial lady who was acting as host, she suggested checking out this old heritage listed winery situated a short distance away on  the same property. While poking around taking photos we had the added pleasure of meeting the vineyard owner who turned out to be an artist also. This painting was based on one of the photos, the old tractor visible in the gloom of the old building and a hint of other things, the subject appealed to me so much I just had to paint it.