A bit thin on the ground today due to holidays, but a new lady did start.
Just to show the enormity of the spoil heap! That's David on top....
As promised in last weeks blog, if asked I would draw and I did. Me and Clayre, assigned to dran the South facing elevation of the long brick built thing that Halliwell put up to protect the foundations. So bloomin' long was the wall that instead of a nice clear 1:10 scale, we had to use 1:20 in order to fit it onto the permatrace. Boo-hiss!
It took us ages to set things up: the line level, the tape and then trying to decide how to tackle it. It didn't help that when we did get started, we hadn't realised that the wall was over 3m long, so I had started with 1:10 scale! Aaaargh
I think we managed 1 row of bricks before lunch!
After lunch, well no prizes for guessing what we were up to!. Back to the wall.
I have to say we did get progressively faster as the afternoon went on, but it was very uncomfortable for both of us. I was drawing so therefore sitting for most of the afternoon, so got bum ache and Clayre was measuring therefore her knees got the brunt of this activity.
Simon did pop over and made some such noise on the lines of "haven't you finished it yet?" We still don't know if he was joking or not!. I'll tell you something for nowt, it was bloomin' hard brain work and we were both wrecked at the end of the day.
Did we finish the wall? Of the 7 layers we did 3 and a half, and the 2 most important things we learnt that day was that we work well together....and we don't want to be drawing any more brick walls!!!!
It was a very beautiful and detailed drawing in our eyes.......
Ice-cream couldn't have been more welcome, and we were serenaded by a great violinist.
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