Collateral Damage
Collateral Damage 'any damage incidental to an activity.' Since my wife became, 'with Child'. Life has, surprisingly seen a few alterations. Now we have seen collateral damage.
Living in an old terrace house our entrance is fairly narrow at the back and is not helped by the placing of our recycling bin outside the back door. Now we could move in and out comfortably, but with impedding Buggy Jockey, due soon. We wouldn't be able to get the buggy past the bin and into the house. So, essentially, we had to rennovate the garden to surmount this obstacle.We aimed to do this by removing a front part of the garden and slabbing it so we can put our bins on and remove it from the near the house.
I firstly removed all shrubs and bushes and strained my back doing so; which is why I despise gardening, as it is why Hobbits excel. They don't have to reach down 3ft to dig.
So now the ground was clear of plants and bushes and also the trellis fence had been removed which was great fun, as you can pretend to be part of professionals, by knocking it down by smashing it with your foot! The first part of this gardening project is my favourite as I find, strangely, I am too gardening what Genghis Khan was to central Asia and China, a maelstrom of complete destruction. It's what I am good at.
So off we went to the B&q Warehouse, I say we as my approval guru was with me, my lovely wife, to choose the tools required. May I say the joy with which, bearing in mind I had removed bush and tree stumps in the morning, I found myself lumping heavy bags of sand and three pretty solid slabs of concrete.
Now we have returned I had to dig even more to allow enough of a drop for the paving slabs, seen here, not correct digging position!
Once the area had been levelled I used plastic covered with a layer of sharp sand on top and began to place the slabs on top. As you can see from the Photo below, we have a washing line post and another piece of concrete for the fence post so we couldn't slab the whole area, so we tried to do the best we could be getting three slabs into the area and leaving two strips of land.
I then began to gravel the area we couldn't slab and as you can see, I even found some old bricks in the shed that I used to border the slabs. Now below you can see the final photos after a long day of hard graft.
And to post the final photo, here is the end result of why we went through all of this back breaking labour!
So there you have it, a child, not yet born has already had the garden rennovated for her. And I hope she appreciates how much we did!
Living in an old terrace house our entrance is fairly narrow at the back and is not helped by the placing of our recycling bin outside the back door. Now we could move in and out comfortably, but with impedding Buggy Jockey, due soon. We wouldn't be able to get the buggy past the bin and into the house. So, essentially, we had to rennovate the garden to surmount this obstacle.We aimed to do this by removing a front part of the garden and slabbing it so we can put our bins on and remove it from the near the house.
I firstly removed all shrubs and bushes and strained my back doing so; which is why I despise gardening, as it is why Hobbits excel. They don't have to reach down 3ft to dig.
So now the ground was clear of plants and bushes and also the trellis fence had been removed which was great fun, as you can pretend to be part of professionals, by knocking it down by smashing it with your foot! The first part of this gardening project is my favourite as I find, strangely, I am too gardening what Genghis Khan was to central Asia and China, a maelstrom of complete destruction. It's what I am good at.
So off we went to the B&q Warehouse, I say we as my approval guru was with me, my lovely wife, to choose the tools required. May I say the joy with which, bearing in mind I had removed bush and tree stumps in the morning, I found myself lumping heavy bags of sand and three pretty solid slabs of concrete.
Now we have returned I had to dig even more to allow enough of a drop for the paving slabs, seen here, not correct digging position!
Once the area had been levelled I used plastic covered with a layer of sharp sand on top and began to place the slabs on top. As you can see from the Photo below, we have a washing line post and another piece of concrete for the fence post so we couldn't slab the whole area, so we tried to do the best we could be getting three slabs into the area and leaving two strips of land.
I then began to gravel the area we couldn't slab and as you can see, I even found some old bricks in the shed that I used to border the slabs. Now below you can see the final photos after a long day of hard graft.
And to post the final photo, here is the end result of why we went through all of this back breaking labour!
So there you have it, a child, not yet born has already had the garden rennovated for her. And I hope she appreciates how much we did!
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