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I've been a bit lazy these past few days/weeks.  We've been travelling a lot and have just been down to the house in Berry to oversee the start of construction.   When we arrived, the lawn was around 50 cm high and we spent the first few hours on the Hustler trying to tame it.  

The next day the workers showed up....and after 4 days it looked like this.... so glad we made the effort to mow the lawn.  

a fabulous panorama of the old house...

The fabulous Ryan turned up in his bulldozer (?) - what are these called?  and ripped out all the lawn, quite a few trees and most of the hedges.  

We are leaving the existing house in situ while we construct the new house.   However as verandah of the old house overlaps the site of the new one, we have to remove the verandah.   A concrete saw was used to cut through the existing verandah and holes drilled into it.  It will then be attached to some sort of machinery and pulled off.  

Here's another view of the old house...

One of the best things about living overseas is not having to watch this building process day by day.   Considering it's going to take around a year to construct, it will be too painful to watch...