Friday, 24-11-23

Morning, everyone!  What a lovely Autumn day it was yesterday.  Not so warm but wall to wall sunshine and the trees looked amazing in the light.  Such a gift.

You've heard of the wrong snow and The Wrong Trousers.

Well, yesterday was the wrong bricks.

When Seth and his team arrived, they started taking the top layer of bricks off the walled beds and, in places, the next layer too.  When that was well under way, they went to the garage to start bringing in the bricks and that was when they discovered that they were the wrong bricks.  Put simply, they weren't good enough quality and not fit for purpose.

The whole point of this is to make it all secure so that, basically, it sees me out.  The ones you see here are over twenty years old and most of the walls are fine, it's just on the tighter curves really.

So what Seth and his bricklayer said was to take off all the top layer, as you can see, and any other other damaged bricks, build another wall around and join the two with capping? - coping? - whatever the word is - bricks placed the other way to that the two walls are joined at the top, creating a thicker wall and giving the whole thing more strength.  but not with the bricks that were delivered.
The right bricks arrived mid afternoon and the wrong ones taken back but it was too late to start and anyway the bricklayer had gone elsewhere by then.
However, the lads got everything ready and then swept and tidied so, to be honest, the ground is cleaner than it was before and it is all go for today  (I hope)!!

They also finished off lots of bits and bobs on the outside so it wasn't a wasted day, just a day off plan.

The next tasks, apart from the walled beds are flooring, painting and finishing off the electrics.  Then, I think, we are nearly there.

Today is Slimming World day so I will be buzzing off at around eight twenty, walking because it's only a short distance away.
Then it is home for a very quick wash and brush up before Chris and I go for a lunch together.  Usually, it is just coffee and chat but we celebrate birthdays and Christmas with a lunch out and this time we're off to Longacres Garden Centre to look round the decorations and enjoy something like a toastie or jacket potato.  Chris says they have a few festive choices now as well as the usual menu.  Nice.

It should be a pleasant day, don't you think?  xx