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The garden is nearly there!

Ok, Ground Force can do it in a weekend with an army of helpers when its raining but we like to take our time! It was very hot again this weekend but the garden is nearly done (apart from the shed end). Duncan has laid nearly all the bricks and we got our first load of slate down. Its looking good! Very professional job!

Too Hot!

It was very hot today. We have one of those travel alarm clocks that also tells you the temperature, so I put it outside for five minutes. It said it was 40 degrees!!! But it was cheap so its probably not very accurate! I was so glad we have air con today, but there wasnt a lot to do indoors apart from read the papers and watch cricket! I finally ventured out to do a bit of the garden about 7pm when it was much more bareable. I think we'll have to move up north soon! I cant take this heat! (Lisa - you'd probably say this temp was cool compared to where you are in Japan!)

Hottest weekend of the year!

The bricks & slate for our garden were delivered this week. (Well, left in the middle of the drive with no phonecall!) So we have started laying the bricks, well, Tony & Duncan did, while I cleared debris and made lunch as well as making design decisions!! And it was hot!
Then sunday we went to Duncan's Dad's for a BBQ. Mmmm! I love BBQ's! I think we shall have a BBQ to celebrate finishing the first phase. (Shed and tiling still to come!) Good excuse!