Ensuite frames and diggings

When speaking with the builder last week, he said that the frames for the ensuite were done, just waiting on that #&^%# building permit. Well ... I'd looked at the frames out on the lawn and there weren't any new ones ... so I figured maybe there was a bit of miscommunication. On the weekend (in actual daylight!) I found them!!! In the garage!!

People keep asking me if the old part of the house is being restumped ... this photo might explain why it isn't being restumped - because there aren't any stumps to start with!!! To the left of new piece of concrete the builders have put in, is an old piece of wood; then on the right are the bricks the house is resting on ... not much clearance under there!Here's the outline of the ensuite ... just waiting on concrete /plumbing etc! Maybe this week?

Below is my present to myself (not that a major house renovation and new kitchen aren't present enough!) ... I saw it at a garden shop near Castlemaine on the weekend. Many years ago I visited the same shop and saw a weathervane I LOVED ... I didn't buy it ... and I have regretted it ever since (of course, I've never seen anything like it again!). I dropped in on my way to Castlemaine, saw this gorgeous thing and thought "no, I shouldn't buy anything until the house is closer to completion" ... got to Castlemaine (yay, found handles for my ensuite vanity) and remembered the years of regret over the last thing I loved from there ... so on the way home I bought it!!
It is made out of a recycled oil drum - from Haiti ... yet to decide where it will live ... was considering in the kitchen over the oven mantle ... or maybe in the outside courtyard ... ????