Billy Lloyd's photograph of a slip-cast mug mould in a pottery works in Stoke. 
Billy will be making the light fittings for the houses.
The light fittings will be manufactured (slip-cast) then crafted (turned on a wheel), meaning each will be unique.

Part of a 1982 lithograph by Friedensreich S Hundertwasser.

The staircase.

Reinforcing bars are drilled into the piles and two layers of steel mesh laid over the Clayboard.

Clayboard wrapped in polythene is laid on the excavated clay.

It is designed to resist damaging clay heave by forming a void under the concrete slab.

Richard, Pawel and Chris

Clay texture.

A panorama of the dig.

The yellow plastic chamber is the sump for the basement waterproofing system.

The inboard piles are being broken down to basement level.

You know who you are!

The piles being cleaned.

The latest archaeological find.

Paul Klee-like scrapes on the digger bucket.

We have come across a lot of these large stones in the clay.

We think they are Septarian Nodules.

We are excavating back to the contiguous piles.

These will be cleaned and the basement wall cast against them.

Excavating the clay.

The Big Dig from below.

The windows are to be generally "tilt-turn" type, allowing secure ventilation and easy cleaning.
Double draughtstrips will ensure the level of airtightness we expect.

A trip to Essex Woodcraft to inspect the sample window they have prepared to our design.
We will be refining the details over the next few weeks.

The Big Dig...

The Big Dig starts...

Sunday sunrise over Grove Park.

A late summer stroll in Dulwich, one mile down the hill from Grove Park.

Summer evening silhouette at the back of the site.

The rainwater tank in position.

It is being part filled with water prior to being surrounded in pea-shingle.

Shadows in the hole dug for the first of the rainwater storage tanks.

The rear retaining wall.

Twiglet makes a site visit.

The Site accommodation gains a first floor.

The second box contains WCs and canteen.

The crushed concrete piling mat being scraped away.

The retaining wall is built of hollow precast  concrete blocks.

These blocks are laid over reinforcing bars, then filled with insitu concrete.

Dive, Dive, Dive!

Sebastian assembling one of the three rainwater storage tanks.

The laser level reflector.

The concrete pour for the retaining wall footing.

Digging out for the footing of the retaining wall, which will be linked to the rear capping beam.

The rainwater storage tanks ready to be set into the ground.

Each one will hold 3,750 litres of water, to be used for flushing the WCs and watering the gardens.

The boys spreading out the second load of concrete for the garage slab.

Chris, Sebastian, Marcin and Veli.

The garage slab being poured.

Marcin.
His trampoline is the steel mesh which will reinforce the garage slab.

A bee "gite" spotted on our holiday in France.

Marcin in the manhole.