So today the footings were poured, or should I say, pumped.

The concrete people turned up, set up the pump and just blasted it in

12 cubic metres of concrete went into the ground in less than an hour, and my shuttering around the shared drain seemed to hold up perfectly. Then again it did have stonking great lumps of sleeper supporting it.

Next is to wait for it to harden enough to remove the shuttering and backfill around the sewer pipe with pea shingle, and then onto the new drainage.

Of course, I had to christen the foundations of our new extension with all of our names and the date!