PAVERS

 

Well, we have another day of pottering around in the garden/house ahead of us.

First up we are going to get some pavers to put under the new water feature (once it arrives), and also our brazier.

ABOVE:  Both those blue pots are moving, and so is the brazier.  The umbrella stand is going into the middle where the brazier is.  I am going to get a small table that the umbrella can go down through the middle of.

So lots of plans.

The new water feature is going to be positioned to the left, where the left hand blue pot is.

Come summer, our dining patio is going to be beautiful.

This is the first 'tweaking' of that area too.  Such fun tweaking!

Like a twat, I left the washing outside last night.  This morning?  Pissing down with rain.

So I had a thought...

ABOVE: I got the large blind from the garage, which had no use here, and draped it over the lines.

ABOVE:  How handy is that?  Might not be perfect, but it's going to keep most of it from becoming sopping wet.

I like how I think sometimes.

I'm hoping it clears up at some point, so we can get on with tweaking our back yard.

11.58 am, at Mitre 10. In the carpark. This bloke sees his wife coming over from a distance.  He yells out "Hey, we are over here. Did you get the haemorrhoid  cream?"

Very funny. Like how he thinks.

ABOVE:  Standing in the queue, behind a bloke who took FOREVER to show the assistant what he was looking for.  On his phone for a good 5 minutes at least, trying to find it.  Grrrrr.

ABOVE: Finally home, and we managed to get most of the tweaking done in between heavy showers.

The Brazier looks lovely there, and we got some pretty flowers to put around our fire rock inside it.

ABOVE: The back entrance to our yard is now framed by the two blue pots.  

ABOVE:  I am thinking of getting four different coloured seat cushions (squabs) for the chairs.  There's nothing in the shops yet, I'll have to wait until summer stock starts arriving.  I want them to be bold, colourful and vibrant.

It is now 1.06 pm, and I have lunch cooking.  Salad and meat patties etc.

6.26 pm:  We have had a quiet afternoon, which was very nice.

Around 5 pm I suggested we go down for a bit of exercise, followed by a swim/soak.  So off we went.

I did 12 minutes on the recumbent exercycle, then swam and walked in the pool.  Stew just did some gentle exercises in the pool.

ABOVE: It is so nice having the pool all to ourselves. 

ABOVE: Same with the changing/shower room.  It is such a clean and tidy facility.  

I now smell like Stew though, as I had grabbed the wrong bottle of shower wash.  Oh well, just as well I like how he smells.

We are now going to settle down for the evening, so time to say...