This is the third day of the building work that has started on our driveway. It can't get any worse. We are using power from a generator (that keeps running out of petrol) and the water lines were broken yesterday. On the first night I had to give my one-year old son his dinner by candlelight (romantic - not!) and his bath by torchlight (luckily we have one of those torches you can strap to your head).

The cowboy on the excavator got a bit gung ho on the first day and decided to do a bit of pruning along the driveway. Two huge trees and many shrubs later the power lines had been pulled up and broken and the neighbours' tap had been flattened.

We will probably be without power for another week or so - so the adventure continues... Just as well my sister has found another venue for her daughter's fifth birthday party on Sunday. It would have been mud pies and dodge the ditches instead of pass the parcel and pin the tail on the donkey!

We are putting in a new driveway with a view to subdividing the property into two lots and then building on the second lot behind the existing house (belonging to my sister). My husband, son and I are sharing the house with my sister and her three kids until our house is built. We never thought we would be sharing the house for so long - in fact I thought we'd be in our new house before my son was born - talk about naive! We've had a very long settlement complicated by drainage easements, over-zealous engineers and elusive builders. 2 years after putting an offer on the property the ball is finally starting to roll...

I'll post some pics with the next entry.