Dirt, dirt and more dirt....

So when does dirt become land and when does land become a block... or are they all the same? It appears that our block or land or dirt depending on how you look at it is taking more work than I first thought to get it "construction ready".

When we first saw the block it looked like this:

As you can see it's generally free from debris...

Only a few weeks later it looked like this:

and this...

and this...

It appears that the company building all the houses around us decided to use our "dirt" to dump their rubble. This makes for a very unhappy Maranda - several phone calls to the builder in question had the situation unresolved.

So fast forward a few weeks later and we come to last weekend where the troops i.e Chris, Chris' brother Jon, Chris' brother-in-law Steve and Chris' Dad decide to rid our block of said rubble. The day turned into a comedy of errors - the Kanga's hydrolic pin broke & then a tyre got a puncture from a nail & had to be returned, the dingo's chain came off and several trips to Bunning's for tools saw the chain fixed. Chris ran out of whipper snipper cord and Steve broke his new whipper snipper and then to top the day off Chris' dad accidently hit a car with the 2-tonne truck. But here's the kicker... they only managed to get half the rubble removed so there is still more work to be done before Plantation come out to cut the block just after the 30th March.

I hope this is not a sign of things to come...