A Mole of a different variety.

This week saw the arrival of Saur, our local water company, to make the connection for the new house being built across the road from us.

After an hour of deliberation and a test dig to find my shut off valve cover (as shown below) the two workmen marked a blue 'dig here' line adjacent to our garden wall directly opposite the new house and proceeded to dig with a small mini digger.

and what a hole it was, the water main is nearly 2 metres deep (No danger of that freezing then)

We were impressed for two reasons, firstly they made the connection to the high pressure main without turning off the supply and secondly rather than dig up the road they moled in the new pipe. The mole is circled below.

Once the connection was made, the hole was backfilled, a new self levelling valve access installed and everything was replaced and made good.

The only exception is the test hole exposing our self levelling valve access. I am hoping they will be back to re-level it to ground level... Time will tell.

A fine bit of blockwork

We spotted this new build (Grand Designs springs to mind, Kevin would be impressed!) on our way to Usseau for one of our walks and thought it worth sharing with you.

Having built various walls in my time out of concrete blocks I have to admire the skills of the mason(s) that are building this...

There was nobody around at the time and I would have loved to go and have a look closer up, but didn't have the cheek or the language skills had I been challenged.

I feel it will be truly magnificent once it is completed and I will definitely be going that way again in a few months time to take a look.