Day Five: It was hard to resist climbing in the hole...

...so we didn't. Here we are in our hole, Josie demonstrating how exactly "as tall as she is" it is. Saturday was a bright and sunny day, so we thought we'd take advantage of it by taking pictures of ourselves in a trench, as you do.

After the photo shoot we scooted into town as Ed needed new work trousers. It was a broadly successful trip as he did find some, although Josie rebelled to the extent that she had hidden herself in a rack of clothes by the time Ed came out of the dressing room, and passers-by were therefore surprised to hear him shouting "Come out you little monster!" at a rack full of shirts, and then shoving his arm in up to the shoulder and producing a protesting toddler from the depths.

Whilst in John Lewis (chicken soup for the soul of the aspirational middle classes) we noticed a rather nice tub chair in the ex-display clearance sale. I'd already identified this range as a potential "relaxed seating area" option online and was interested to note that the chair was on offer at a £50 discount. I still needed to do some work on Ed, however, so we didn't purchase it there and then. After about 90 minutes of wheedling back home, Ed agreed that it was indeed a bargain, and that he'd only be annoyed if I made him buy the same chair fully-priced in three months' time, so I despatched him after church on Sunday to go and purchase the wonderful chair.

Here it is, residing in its temporary home in our bedroom:

Now isn't that a lovely chair? Before anyone suggests that it isn't really a practical colour for a kitchen/children, may I just say Lalalalala I'm not listening.

So, on to today's construction activities. The building inspector has apparently been round today to check that we're not building the Taj Mahal in our back garden. We haven't heard anything to the contrary so assume that all is OK. There has been some further garden clearance work carried out though, which was a bit of a bonus as we weren't sure that they were going to get anything done today. You can see from the picture below that a rather large ivy has been stripped away from the wall, and some of the hedge has been removed from further up the garden so they've got room to turn round while they're building. Not a terribly exciting day project-wise, but more than made up for by Sunday's purchase of the lovely chair!