The pink stuff is fibre-cement sheeting, a currently fashionable way of giving dwellings a monolithic finish: once all the joints are plastered over and painted, if nothing moves, nothing cracks, it looks *way* cool, so smooth and straight......

Since *everything* in this part of the world moves (the clays swells in the rainy season, then shrinks in the dry, about a one inch change vertically every season, with a net loss of about one millimeter a year downhill;. I sometimes suggest people think of their houses as more like rafts than solid structures) Anyway....control joints are left in, as features. It is hoped the movement occurs at these points.

Hope springs eternal.

Had to put in at least *one* arty picture, these three are all coutesy of Simon, a young man who turned up at the gate wanting to work on this "fantastic" house.

He is just starting out, doing a carpentry course, getting practical experience.

This will be a hard act to follow.