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Is Patios the plural of Patio – doesn’t sound right somehow.

Anyway, the chips arrived today so finished off and tidied up the garden. Here are the final pictures

The grass will recover soon enough I hope.

The far end quarter

The near end double quarter

And a view of both

Friday night and with the help of Chris Lambie Pie we’ve got a weekend of laying a new patio and a half ahead.

Far end (before)

Near end (before)

Will attempt to keep you updated with how things go over the course of the weekend – so far so good – slabs and sand and various tools have arrived . I put the cement in the garage when I got home in the rain before it solidified into one massive block. (The bags are apparently water resistant but you never know…)

Saturday Night

Well we had thought about possibly catching up with a couple of mates for a few beers but we did not finish until 8:30 after starting at about 8am! Still – we’ve dug out and laid the back bit – 1 quarter patio.

A whole van full of earth came out of this hole

Including this boulder

Back corner patio done

Sloped the lawn in a bit to the small patio as the garden slopes a bit oddly. Meant there would have been a bit of a step down in to it otherwise.

Thanks to Lorraine for the proper working bacon and egg rolls in the morning and then lovely grub at about 9pm! And the endless cups of tea/coffee/biscuits to keep us going. I must have drunk about a gallon of water.

Still got the outer ring to do

Sunday night

Woke up with cramp down my shins at about 1am – ouch that hurt. My legs were hurting more than anything this morning – could hardly reach my feet!

Still – we’ve done everything we needed to do – nothing left out the front other than lots of muddy footprints and a heavy wheelie bin. All that’s left to do is to fill in some gravel round the 2 quarter patio and tidy up what’s left of the sand. Giving my legs a good rub with muscle stuff to stop them seizing up tonight!

Chris has arrived home safely back in Stoke!

Couldn’t have done it without his advice/labour/van/unending enthusiasm.

Cheers dude.

Pictures forthcoming.

Thanks Lorraine for doing the jointing and everything else this weekend.

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For both of use, we had a weekend of projects getting done.

1. Moved the computer room/office from the 2nd floor to the ground floor. This involved disconnecting the two PCs and network gear and moving it all and 1 of our 2 desks downstairs. Network kit is now in the garage with a hole drilled through into the new office and a nice wee double network port added there. All very tidy for now – hopefully it will stay this way. Also means I can multi-screen! TV/music/email on the right hand monitor. Work on the left hand one. Cool!
2. Did a bit of solder work on Xbox – to enable it to do things other than just playing games. New hard drive and wireless network adapter are next on the shopping list for it.

3. Lorraine stripped and recovered an old chair inherited from her mum. All looking fresh and smart in a nice stripy fabric and newly varnished woodwork. Pictures to follow!

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