An important milestone.... ground floor slab DOWN!!

Just an update on progress for those interested in our broke ass home build.
After the last post about how we finally got the footing trenches poured but had to complete then in an unexpected rainstorm. The surface run off buggered some of our levels on the concrete footings. Fortunately my mate, Kev the Blockie is an experienced, awesome block layer and while it was fiddly and time consuming, he cut slivers of blocks to correct the levels back to what was required.
This allowed the ground floor slab to be poured into the block as formwork hiding the edge of the slab from external sight.
The slab was poured and allowed to cure for the next 4 weeks.
Now, we're ready to start laying the block walls that will support the house.

Setting the slab levels....

Back breaking tedious and absolutely necessary....

We even had time to finish painting the upper reaches of our tree..... thanks to my girls Christmas gift of a EWP for a day or two.