These past 5 weeks seem to have gone rather slowly...  Mark was away for a well needed 'away' time on the Transkei coast with friends for a week (tho Mmalae continued working), Mmalae's sister suddenly passed away and he needed to be with family for just over a week.  Mark has also been working on sorting out the hot and cold water lines and redoing the wiring.  Here he is on the outside of the house doing something water related.  Our dog Jamie particuarly liked the water work cos she went crawling under the house with Mark.

 The first bathroom is taking shape nicely.  Tiling, grouting water lines, toilet connection, window and mirror edging done.  Tho we experianced a setback when we connected the water... a leak in the newly tiled wall (you can see the darkened tile in the left bottom corner).  This meant chipping out the tiles above the pipes, finding the leak and replastering and tiling those sections.  Mark and Mmalae finished that this week too.  The pic above is looking into the bathroom from the door and the bottom is looking back at the door from the shower end.  The basin will go next to the loo.

 The electric box is looking better and better.  Mark has had to figure out what wires were doing what before he could sort out the box (the house is 100 years old!).  He's now in a place of needing to wait until the new roof and beams are in place so he can finish it off.  They hope to build truces etc next week, Mark has ordered the roofing supplies and Lordwilling the one side of the roof will get done the week after next.  

The retaining blocks of the ramp to the front door are all in now (with plants :)  and will be completed once all the rubble is out of the house.  Rubble still to come from replacing the window in Kara's room (small one on the left) and the remodeling of the second bathroom (the shower is now leaking badly, so just in time).  JJ's room will be the window in the middle (next to Kara's.