Miscellaneous photos

Slabs left over

We spent some time on my birthday [Christmas Eve] moving the leftover bricks and stone slabs into a neat pile away from where we need to wheel the wheelbarrow.

It was great to have the last remnants of builders' materials (that we are keeping) out of the way!

[OK, so there was plenty of rubbish left to get rid of, but we knew that once we bought the trailer, we could take that to the dump really easily, so it felt like an immense step forward.]

Materials all out of the way

The odd part was finding we didn't have a spare tarpaulin - how could that be, we seem to have dozens!

Anyway, we treated ourselves to another one and covered up the pile so that none of the walnuts from the trees nearby could land amongst the stone/bricks where we couldn't get at them and germinate.

And hidden!

That would have been a real pain!

Anyway, the pile is so neat and tidy that we don't really notice it any more, so job done!



This is the wall that we have M. Milesi coming to fix - probably in September [nothing, of course, can happen in August!], although we won't know when he's coming until he arrives if he is anything like the other workmen!

The crack has opened up a lot more during the last winter [it's been getting worse ever since we bought the house, but has markedly worsened since last autumn] - another casualty of the bizarre weather we think.

Either way, I worry about it falling down and injuring someone, so we have bitten the bullet and got a really painful estimate to replace it.

Scrap gone!

I know the one that will go up is going to be ugly, but at least it won't squash anyone!

The scrap being gone has nearly doubled the size of the garage (or so it feels), and we can easily get around without risking damage to ankles.

Tidying the rest of the barn is on our list of "Things To Do" when we go for our summer "holiday".