DAY TWO

So Sunday dawned bright and sunny, although cold when the sun went behind a cloud!. So it was back out first thing into the garden to carry on with the path.

So this is how we left it Saturday evening, Eight paving slabs laid and more old path to be dug out and grass removed ready for the next set of four.

So first up clearing another part of old path and digging out the grass to form a level square ready for the next stage.

Around 10.30 there was movement on the patio, could it be some young and fit helpers? Looks like they are just chatting and enjoying the sun, anyone would think it was Lindsey's birthday! Oops it is Lindsey's birthday! So no help there then...

Slowly we are making progress.

closer look.

Each set of four was surrounded by the black blocks.

Yes finally proof that Paul does not do everything on his own, that is indeed me on my knees placing all the edging to the path.

A long view of the path coming along.

Looking back towards the house, you can just make out Izzy sitting patiently for us to come back her way, she did not like the wooden ramp we'd placed to push the wheelbarrow up, so she stayed there greeting us like long lost relations every time we went that way. I tweaked the design  for the fourth set of four by moving it to come off the side and down, this brought it over enough to bring it to line up with the gate to the flower garden.

And this is as far as we got today by 6.15 pm which is much further than I thought we would ! We just need to put the edging round this set, then lay a set of two, then four smaller slabs to reach the gate.

View from patio towards the gate.

Then back towards the house after we have tidied up the boards.

You can see the small area just in front of the gate that still needs to be done, the garden drops away there, so it will need to be sloped down at that point.

And I actually remembered to do a couple of photo's from the upstairs window!

A closer look. So a very good weekends work ! It will now have to wait until next weekend for the last few paving stones to be laid, then the whole thing will need to be pointed.

We are now thinking of paving over the brick step over to match in with the path and since we have managed to get quite a bit done this week, we may have time to sort that out next.

Thought we'd share a few photo's of our Wisteria which is coming into flower.

There are lots of buds and thankfully it's not been caught so far by a late frost, so with luck we will see it in it's full glory.

Here it's starting to bloom.

More blooms

Lots of lovely blooms getting ready to spread their colour for us to enjoy.

Well a good weekends work but still much to be finished before we open for the Church and because we had that lovely day and night of rain we have lots of weeds making themselves comfy, so that yet another job for the list!

We will keep you informed of our progress as we wend our way to that open day...


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