Bounty

I forgot to mention something BIG in the previous post. George dug up a gun an a helluva lot of ammunition. It was buried under the concrete floor of the shed he ripped up, which makes me think it was used for some kind of killing spree. This is the video he took of his discovery. I particularly enjoyed the soundtrack which I think was just whatever was on the radio at the time.

Anyway, we put the gun in a box and dragged it with us everywhere we went between Thursday and Sunday night, when we finally made it over to Balmain Police Station and handed it in. It was very dramatic walking into the police station with a big box and announcing "We've got a gun" but once the cop eyeballed it he wasn't too worried. We were kind of hoping they would decide to come and excavate the back yard to look for more evidence of crime, thus saving us the hassle of doing it ourselves*.

Sadly this was not to be, but the cop did say that he would do some kind of criminal record search for previous occupants of our address, and then they're probably melt the gun down into some kind of scrap metal.

*By ourselves I obviously mean George.

Trenches

George has been busy ripping up concrete, digging trenches and painting walls with bitumen paint as you can see in the picture above.

He's kept a little bit of the original back structure as a kind of shelter for the mini fridge, power tools and the radio, but that will eventually by torn down.

This is Rahul admiring George's fine handywork.

Demolition Day #3

Not unlike the ruins at Pompeii!

Seriously, I can't believe the pace this demolition is moving at. It's all due to George, our labourer who is visiting Australia from Greece. Our communication is obviously limited, but I gave him watermelon, so I think he likes me. He also gets along amazingly well with George II (our neighbour) and I imagine he will also like George III (our brickie.)

Demolition Day #2

I have to admit I quite liked the results of day 2. It was like having an outdoor patio area. I almost could have kept it.

Demolition Day #1

The shed took a walk down to the back of the yard to serve it's new purpose as a portaloo. That's right, Theo worked out that we could cheaply plumb a toilet right into the sewage line and use the shed to provide shelter, thus saving the money we would have spent hiring a portaloo for months of construction. Are you surprised to know that the plumbers have nicknamed him "tightarse" (in Greek of course!)