Building Work has started

Yesterday we restarted the building work, and as I sit here I can hear various scrapings, hammerings, squeaky wheelbarrows and builders whistling (yes they do it in Morocco too) and the unique slushy sound of concrete being thrown around going on overhead.

Here is a photo of what it looked like yesterday evening.


I will post more photos as work progresses. We have not managed to find any labourers at the moment so poor Mohamed is up there carrying bricks and mixing concrete for the two builders.

I have spent a fair part of the last couple of days watching the election results unfolding and feeling very down about it... at the same time very happy that I am not back there struggling to deal with all the cuts in social housing and benefits that are now bound to follow. The North-South divide is so glaring again.... and there must be lots of questions about the role of the Westminster parliament in Scottish affairs now.

Well I must go into town and do some shopping, trying to get back to normal (well as normal as you can be when you live under a building site) now that I have recovered from jetlag and a little tummy upset last week.

btw I saw Elvis (twice) in Las Vegas and an Amish couple when I was in Chicago (they were up the Sears Tower)!