ALL FINISHED

 Well the paving is! Now it's down to us to tidy and fill in.

The step up on the uphill side of the flower garden is all paved and looking good

The downhill side has now been levelled and due to them doing the perfectly even circle with the four small paths off, our concrete seat base on this side was slightly out of line with it's opposite sister seat. S

Now, I was all for putting the arbour bench seats back in place and sanding them down for a re-stain later in the spring. But Paul decided that now was the time to buy a couple of new ones. These ones are eighteen years old, so have given good service and are still sturdy with only a little bit of rot here and there.

They are also very heavy, so this one, which the landscapers moved into the middle of the space, we left rather than try and get it back up to the raised area.

Since they put this one on the flowerbed ! at the side, we only had to heave it up onto the new paved area.

Now these one's are not going to waste! We are giving one to our next door neighbour and the other we are going to put down on the paved circle at the end of the garden and move that tall metal blue bench into the raised pond garden. The small white metal bench that's in that garden will be moved elsewhere.

So we'll be taking the benches apart and moving them to their new homes over the weekend, ready to receive the new benches next week. Al though these will need painting and a little bit of tweaking but more about that once they are all done.