2018 has begun...

Exposing old builder's rubble...

Concrete broken up!

4th January 2018

It’s a New Year!

Christmas festivities over. New Year celebrations done. Building work has begun and it’s some way away but I can see things happening to make our garden much less of a concrete expanse. The digger was in today and great chunks of concrete have been excavated, making quite a difference to our outlook from the lounge.We have to look at putting drainage across the garden in the form of a giant soakaway. Huge crates need to be submerged 5metres from the house, and it means a lot of concrete had to be excavated. We asked the builders to take more away when this was being done too, (yay!) which means the concrete had to come up, and the ‘60s style home barbecue will just have to go too, what a shame! Uncovering concrete can be interesting, too, underneath one path was one of the original windows from the house: a Steel Crittal 1920s style window complete with panes! Would you believe it? 

And if it isn't warm enough to be in the garden, I gave my hubby a fire pit to kinda replace the brick barbeque for Christmas so I look forward to the rain stopping so we can try it out...

The builders have only been here two days but I am so excited!