World's biggest raingauge

After a lovely wet week, which helps the concrete to cure nice and slowly, we end up with our indoor pool after all. So, a 65 sq.m. basement, with 140mm of water in it, from a catchment of around 200 sq.m means we had about 50mm of rain at home - which agrees with the Bureau of Met.



From another perspective, that's just over 9000 liters. Our big new rainwater tank (yet to arrive) would have been half-filled by that... Just as construction can break the drought, we expect our rainwater tank to bring it back again. Anyway, no harm done, it's all pumped out again, and it'll eventually be fully waterproofed over the next little while.

The bricklayers have been busy again. Several windows and doors are now gone, and another one has been moved.



Even more impressive, the new rooms in the extension are emerging. These will have huge glass frontage to the north, so should be lovely, warm and sunny in the winter - and being on a slab with internal brick and plenty of insulation, lots of thermal mass to keep them that way.



Not quite at full height yet, and awaiting a back (south) wall with a door onto the garden and some windows.



And Mt Everest? Still growing... Though getting in and out of the house itself is a lot easier now.