Mid-week brought the delight of a hole in our kitchen, with a decent chunk of the dreary floor gone!

This was the beginning of the underpinning. The hole is dug under what passes for a foundation, a couple of layers of bricks. A cement foundation is then slowly built up:

Part of the foundation for the extension had also been dug and filled:

Meanwhile, the landscaping in the rear was almost done, and the slab foundation for the studio had been laid down:

Saturday brought more dramatic changes to the kitchen, with the entire rear floor gone and the first part of the unlamented kitchen furniture...

...which was now in the living room:

Finally, there was more cement in the underpinning, but daylight was still visible underneath the external wall: