Welcome to the bricklayer in london blog

I have been a bricklayer in london for over twenty years. I did my apprenticeship and got my City and Guilds qualifications and headed out to seek my fortune in the capitols building sites. I went on to get my Advanced City and Guilds because I thought about going to Canada and those were the requirements to get in at that time.I worked in Germany(just on the other side of the bridge on the right next to Cologne Cathedral) for a few years and also Ireland.When I returned from Germany I worked the building sites where I had a lot of fun but I longed to be my own boss so I went out on my own doing house extensions,garden walls brick paving,brick re pointing and brick driveways.The economy which has been pretty buoyant for the last 15 years is now experiencing a downturn which means that the number of businesses going into liquidation has increased manifold and house repossessions are taking place on a daily basis.People are reluctant to spend money on anything other than the bare essentials and even the weekly shop is costing much more than this time last year because of sky high oil prices and the now all too infamous credit crunch.