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THE MAN OF THE HOUSE!
05 years
Mum likes to say “it can’t be that hard…men can do it!”
Sometimes this worries me because I’m pretty sure she has no idea what she’s trying to do! Sometimes she spends ages asking her “aunty google” how to do things which is even more worrying! But so far we haven’t had too many things go horribly wrong, and we are still alive 
I think it’s quite funny that mum carved this little head and stuck it to one of the window frames…the one opposite the door, we call it “The Man Of The House”, he is supposed to give any dodgy visitors the stink-eye, I think the dogs are probably better at that.
The Man Of The House.
The tank-stand shower.
05 years
by Amy
in The HOUSE WE BUILT!
While Mum’s phone was dead we got on and concreted the base of the tank-stand for our outdoor-shower, it was all new to me, I have not done anything with cement before but I liked mixing it up, I put three shovel-fulls of sand in the barrow, three of chip (Mum calls it aggregate) and one of cement.
Then I spent ages stirring it and adding water bit by bit, till finally it was all mixed and fluffy, then I tipped it in for Mum to poke around and make into the shower floor.
Our outdoor shower floor!
We added the drainage and put a grate over the plug hole so the soap can’t get down the drain. We had looked everywhere for a cool grate for our shower but they were all really expensive or hideous so eventually we got some cast-iron pot trivets and used them, I think they look cool!
Our “shower grate”.
Then we built the “splash-catcher” for our outside tap, this is for washing feet or getting water in a bucket or whatever, I think it’s pretty neat too.
The outside tap “sink”.
Now we just need to build the walls and do the plumbing…it will probably be a while till we get back to this though because we have other jobs to do like setting up for the solar panels and installing them.