taught metric at school and Imperial at home, consequently, I tend to work to what ever is nearest on the rule!). So there it is, I have my outline design for the aviary, all that was left to do was build it – good job I had my paternity leave coming up.


By the time we had moved house and sorted the daughters bedroom, decorated the new nursery and all the other things that come with moving house, the wife was getting rather, well near to producing, and as look would have it, summer was approaching. So the spade came out and to the garden I went. Believe me, digging a hole nearly 5 m sq and about


1ft deep by hand made me ache in places I didn’t even know I had. I had also had delivered 3 tonne of ballast, 2 palettes of concrete blocks and far too many bags of cement. The hole was half filled with broken up rubble, most of which was found simply lying around in my new allotment, shutter boarding was erected and with the help of my brother and a cement mixer, on what turned out to be the hottest day ever, we begun to lay the concrete slab. We did this in 3 sections, the outer 2 first, and middle last, this made levelling it far easier, though I had built a 2 inch run down to one corner to aid water run.


Construction begins, the first concrete is laid


20 BIRD SCENE


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