There seems to be a building bug going around! My mate, Jane Blake, who has moved to the USA with her family, is doing a new build which looks amazing! Like me, she's keeping a blog of the process. Interesting how the film, Julie and Julia, has brought out the bloggers in all of us!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has a problem working out how to get photos properly positioned on the blog! And I don't know what half the buttons and gizmos are for. I will have to spend some time working it all out, but am so busy at the moment trying to keep clients happy, as well as involvement with our build.

Other friends, the Tates, just down the road in Wraysbury, are also building. They're roughly at the same stage as us at the moment and we've visited each other's sites to look at progress and swap stories.

We had an update meeting on Friday, just before Andy left to go on holiday. Stone sills are just going in now. The staircase design still needs to be finalised and Andy said he would get detailed drawings drawn up, so that we can get exact costings for the stone and balustrading.

I walked around the rooms with Paul, imagining the finished product. Funny how some days the space looks small and then other days it looks much larger! We were told this would happen.

We went over to a showhouse at the weekend, which is a little smaller than our build, but looked positively huge to us!