Never mind the blocks...

...here's the first wall

OK, it's a retaining wall but it's a wall.

Above, the walls you can see are dead work really in that they need to create a frame for the driveway above.  The wall running from the bottom of the photo is essentially the garage door (albeit the garage door will be about 9 feet above what you see).

Above, you can see a better context for the walls.  This will needs some additional walls to retain the earth that will be pushed back up to the road to provide the driveway.  Another perspective on this is that the concrete in the foreground is underpinning the spare bedroom (under the garage).

You can see above what is effectively the perimeter of our bedroom (in broad terms).  There will be glass doors to the right, view into the forest.

"Garden's not very big is it?", oh..........