The 35th Week: our new home!

It's now been a week since the house came down with the realisation that after all the planning, our new home is finally being built! After one of the driest Canberra winters on record, the week the builders were meant to start site cut and drainage works, it rained for much of the week. While the precipitation was most welcome, any delays to our build won't be. At least the rain will revive some of our sad looking plants. We checked in on it today and the site is looking for all the world like the red centre - minus a monolithic rock. We were excited to see the indentation which appears to indicate where our cars will be live in the 35th week...

So whilst technically, this is week 1 of construction, in reality it has been almost 2 years in the making. Two years of dreaming, procrastinating, researching, planning, procrastinating, consulting, meetings, and decisions. So. Many. Decisions.  We'll touch on some of these throughout the course of the next 35 weeks, but it seemed easiest to start the blog on week 1: the demolition! Why 35 weeks? That's the time frame our builder has quoted, nay, guaranteed us, within which our new home will be completed.  So we received final bank approval a few weeks ago and since then have been impatiently waiting for work to commence.  Firstly, the asbestos removal guys took about a week to do their thing. Then the builder scheduled the demo. After a few false starts, this afternoon we watched the heavy machinery roll down our little street and with startling speed, began tearing through our old home. In the hour that followed, we experienced a mixture of sadness, fascination an