Being creatures of habit, Thursday evenings will usually find us watching Grand Designs, a Channel 4 (UK) production that screens our “our ABC” [national public broadcaster]. Each GD program tracks an unusual home building project and you can vicariously enjoy the trials and tribulations of a “build”. Typically the program is served with a small a dash of schaedenfraude – cue images of damaged interiors because the hapless owner/project manager insisted on proceeding with fitting out before the house was watertight; cue windows that don’t fit due to the absence of proper building drawings: cue timetable and budget blowouts and so on.
Meanwhile, we’ve been experiencing our very own community Grand Design here at Copacabana in the form of our new surf life saving club building. For several months, the building team has been concentrating on earthworks and foundations. Yesterday, before we left for the city, there was just a concrete slab. Look what we woke up to this morning:
This could take some getting used to.
Caitlin O'Connor says
ABSOLUTELY addicted to GD here, too – fabulous show, innit? Between that and Time Team on Tuesday nights, we don’t go out for dinner…