Chapter 3 : Walls

Dad, peter & stephen load blocks ready for the brick layers

For the stone and brick laying, I took advantage of living on a building site to persuade the brickies working on the other houses on the scheme to put up the walls on an hourly rate, with, once again, my Dad helping them and mixing concrete and ensuring they had all the materials to hand as they built the walls.

Dad, peter & stephen load blocks ready for the brick layersFrom the frosts of February to the oppressive heat of early summer, Dad, Peter and occasionally my husband and me built the garden. At Easter the garden was beginning to take shape. It's strange to think I was so pleased to look out on scalpings and breeze blocks, while our visitors looked out dismayed. Things were taking shape.