Patio

We did level out the patio hole (I had a horrible feeling that I would have to flatten it out), and make it round, and laid the weed-suppressing membrane while we were waiting for Dominique. It was quite satisfying throwing all the stones back in, and collecting up piles & piles of other stones to use as hard-core. I’d unearthed an awful lot of stones when clearing out the ivy under the lilacs by the snail pits, and all the small ones went into the patio hole. We then found even smaller ones to make it level, then did a layer of gravel (M. Lorin had left a pile of road gravel behind – perfect for this sort of thing). I levelled that off, but we decided to see if the rain makes it settle before putting a layer of sand to lay the patio on; there’s no hurry – we still don’t know when the delivery will be, so there’s plenty of time.

Again, watch this space!