This post was going to be about the great brick wall of Suburbiton .. or something to do with Pink Floyd. Emphasis here was on 'wall' ...
The bricks were delivered on Friday, ready for the brickies to do their magic this week. The weather was great - blue skies and about 13 deg C.
They are new yellow bricks with an aged face to match the existing. After 120 years of exposure to just about everything the weather had to throw against it - not an easy task. I must admit however, MTL did a really good job finding a very close match. Looking forward to seeing how it looks when it goes up.
A good start, but unfortunately you can probably gather from the opening, things didn't go as intended. As luck would have it, London got hit with ...
What better way to build on record rainfall, a once in a decade snowfall than by adding a twice in a decade cold snap. Why did we decide to start a loft conversion in January again?!!!
Our friends in Canada may be laughing and saying "That's not cold!" .. but to that I respond "It is when you don't have a roof!"
Anyway, as you really can't lay bricks when the weather is below c. 2 degrees C due to freezing/expansion, our beautiful wall will have to wait another week for this cold snap to blow over. Lots more time to think of something creative to write about it I guess ...
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