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Work starts tomorrow. Like for real. Like on the real house.<\/p>\n
Just on the foundations, and probably just pushing earth around, but I am still pretty gutted that I won’t be there because I’ve got one more day of my first aid course.<\/p>\n
Never mind, Esther will be here and will take pictures for you.<\/p>\n
I decided to take this first aid course because I thought it was at least a little bit likely that we would have some kind of first-aid-worthy injury on site during the build, and worse case scenario, I wanted to know what was the best thing to do with crushes, choppings-off, etc. But the real effect it is having, looking at pictures (real, genuine photos) of people who’ve just chopped off their fingers, is to make me want to show them to all of my workforce to that they will be as motivated as I am to be incredibly careful at all times. The burns pictures are even worse. But at least I know how to deal with all these things now.<\/p>\n
Another thing I’ve learned is that the important, life-saving bits of first aid, CPR and whatnot, are really not rocket science. I would encourage everyone to ask around until you find someone who will explain the rules to you, or watch it on youtube or something, because I have always been scared that it would be complicated and require days of training, but it’s really simple and you can learn it in a few minutes and you might just end up being really glad you did. Fun fact: If you’re doing chest compressions right, you will probably break ribs! But don’t worry, they’re already technically dead, they won’t mind.<\/p>\n
Here’s a picture of Alec clearing out round the bottom of the now enormous hazel tree that was a tiny twig when we first bought the land. It’ll have to go eventually, but I’ll let it live as long as I can. And then maybe use its branches in the house somewhere.<\/p>\n
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Here we go. Work starts tomorrow. Like for real. Like on the real house. Just on the foundations, and probably just pushing earth around, but I am still pretty gutted that I won’t be there because I’ve got one more … Continue reading