17/06/2026
Tomorrow I am finishing a job that has taken me around 6 months to complete, I have lost sleep over it, I have ached all over whilst being wet day in and day out for weeks through the winter doing all of the stuff that is never seen, manual digging, shoveling tons of stone, screeding tons of concrete, laying 100s of concrete blocks cutting membranes, painting membranes, backfilling and then there is all of the bricklaying, slabbing and flint blocks that have been laid.
Tomorrow it is over, tomorrow I get to take some awesome pics and show everyone my hard work.
I have had help on the labour side of things but I have also spent weeks alone working and slogging my guts. It is definitely a signature piece and an introduction for G.B. Bricklaying Hampshire but I am so so glad to see the back of it.
Would I do it again? Abso - bloody - lutely! Bring it on, especially with my new member in the team who is smashing it with me now.
Pictures to follow tomorrow.