Great Wall, Rotten Door
It’s been a while, the weather improved and the garden, at least the ‘hard landscaping’ part of it, has had some attention.
The ‘great wall of Beckside’ has continued to grow. Surprising how much sand, cement and tea it’s taking to build.
Skirting board and architrave arrived for upstairs but will have to wait until it rains (?), talking of which, tentative link, ducks don’t fully understand glass.
Time for a complaint – C & W Berry have been absolutely ‘spot on’ for just about everything, but we’ve had a problem with the front door – it’s a front door in description only. It shipped with a memo that had clear instructions on how to treat, which we dutifully followed, but 6 months in it’s started to delaminate.
What you need to do is read the invoice (it may well arrive after you trimmed and hung):-
Begs the question what was intended to come after the ‘or’ – ‘not hung outside’, ‘used in dry climate only’ ?
The wall is still growing:-
And, as each course is left to set, a bit of reshaping of the lawn to give room to manoeuvre:-
The wall is still growing (is that an echo??):-
Gateposts too:
Final 4 (how long have they been sitting there???):-
Finish the wall with paving slabs, trimmed, almost evenly, to the right width:
And THEN, 10 tonnes of soil turned up (there’s a random sign on the way into Longridge, just give them a ring, not quite grade 1, but decent stuff).
Before we shift it, there’s the final parts of the old concrete yard to come up. Thankfully Tom’s had a few more days to get stuck in.
Making ‘in roads’ – we needed to, the van was booked in for a service and MOT, but the wrong side of soil mountain, and it didn’t have the ‘optional’ wing pack / helicopter mode.
More drainage (you can’t be serious?) and a new water meter boundary box.
And just for fun, the Evil White Duck nested, for the second year running, on the old garage roof – it’s over 3m high – a significant distance for this little lot.
They all survived the drop, but sadly didn’t survive the heron.