Fire Number One

Because everything is so wet it took a bit of effort to get it going, but here's the first (of nine) bonfires:

Not so nice for the tradies, who had rather smoky working conditions for the rest of the day:

Plasterboard delivery:

Plasterer installing channels to hold the plaster board on the ceiling of my sewing room (and the R6 insulation above it):

Carpenter and his work experience student starting on the cladding across the back of the house:

It's all happening!

By the end of the day, fire number one had burnt down to about half its original size:

and as it began to rain, we left the fire to smoulder over night.