Long / Bank Holiday weekend meant lots of work to do around the house ...
Started off with cleaning out the u-bend in the kitchen sink, didn't resolve the standing water, so had to dismantle the whole plug / trap assembly to clean out the stones the kids had washed down the sink .......
Then onto a piece of garden out the front.
When we first moved in, it looked like this
I had, previously, "pruned" the conifers to this
Which left the mess which was
So started off removing the stump of the conifer / surrounding foliage / heathers
Along with the bricks and rocks hidden in the heather
Then scraped the gravel back and removed the weed matting
Planted a standard "Red Robin", brick surround, new matting and spread two builders bags of new gravel
Also removed that handrail going up the stairs.....
Still needs some pots with plants in to finish it off
Then moved onto the terrace in the back between the house and the garden
Greenhouse, be gone
And then the border of said terrace; where the previous owners obviously had a "thing" for heather .....
Several back breaking hours later ....
The next big job is introducing all those conifers to my newly acquired chainsaw ......