Here we go

The piles are to be poured tomorrow.

Seems I’m the only one to be excited by the prospect of concrete being poured into a hole (that would be six 3 metre deep holes to be exact). On hearing the news The Skater hardly even lifted his eyes from the game console.

The Engineers shop drawings of the foundation formwork arrived with the mornings post. It’s a curious choice of communication, seeing as how everyone uses email these days. Even The Builder can mail me a ‘pdf’ or an ‘excel’. Yet The Engineer, or at least his draftsman, seems to be from a bygone era. His drawings are done by hand. They have that stripped down functionality that I’ve always found so elegant in engineers drawings. There’s not a single superfluous line. He probably whips his drawings out a lot quicker with a pencil than we do with our ‘workstations’. Even though, they only just arrived in time for a last minute modification.