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Daffy's 'patchwork dreams' diary

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  • Cheery_Daff
    Cheery_Daff Posts: 17,179 Forumite
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    <yawn>

    Started into space for a little while and had a little toot :)

    Then got out into the garden and did some shovelling. And sat out there and stared for a while, thinking that if I pull my finger out this week, I'll be sitting outside eating my breakfast in the garden by next Sunday! :T :T :T Which means I've got to dig a few plants out (mostly weeds, but also a large non-flowering rose), saw off a couple of dead tree stumps (was going to put pavings round them, but they're right in the middle of where I want to sit, and those pavings are so enormous I don't want to juggle them round any more than is necessary!).

    Also need to have a good think about some kind of fencing - no idea what's going on there yet - perhaps a late night trip to the garden centre one night! :p

    Feel a whole lot better about the whole project now it's back in my hands :T :T Yes, I've got to shovel 2 tonnes of topsoil tomorrow evening :eek: :eek: and yes, I've got to find someone to help me shift those paving slabs... (I'm banking on Mr Daffs - it'll take less than half an hour, it won't be pleasant, but I reckon I can persuade him on this one - especially since he'll have to do it while I'm there too). I also need our mate to come and fit the front door (which I'm paying him to do, so I'm hoping there's a bit more leeway - will ring him tomorrow and pin him down on a day). Then it's just sorting the fence etc - I'm pretty sure it's only going to be one fence panel, so won't need much in the way of posts, and I may find a way to get away without even that. Hmm...

    Also going to see whether I can get away with painting the breeze block to fit in more with the stone the rest of the street's built in (my garden wall is half stone, half breeze block), and investigate trailing plants to hang over it... Hmmmm

    (tired now though - just going to see what is bare minimum I can get away with before soil arrives) :o
  • Cheery_Daff
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    Well, after all that I managed another hour and a half! :eek: :eek: Dug out a rose bush, and a load of other stuff, shifted some more rocks around, and tried (for the 700th time) to dig out a blithering tree that's parked itself right next to the rhubarb. Got the pick axe on it, but was just too tired to lift it enough times :rotfl: :rotfl: Filled 4 bags of garden waste (which I now have to take to the tip as the council has decided it can't get the green waste lorry down our road :mad: despite the fact that the (larger) ordinary bin lorry can get down it! :mad:)

    Anyway, I'm covered in mud and scratches and bruises and a nice rash off the leftover conifer :rotfl: I'm stiff and sore and aching. But my kitchen is vaguely tidy, and my bath has just finished running :T :T :T Think I can hear our (squeaky-braked) car arriving back with Mr Daffs in it, so he can make me a cuppa :p
  • vl2588
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    Sounds like it's all coming together, plus going to bed after physical labour is the best! :D
    Weight loss: Start weight: 80kg; Current Weight: 77kg; Target weight: 55kg
  • Cheery_Daff
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    Look at my signature :D:D:D :j :j :j :j :j :j

    Have been playing around with internet banking and spending diary. Bank all looking fine - but I've spent £87.36 this week in cash :eek: :eek: (actually, Mr Daffs gave me £10 back, but still £77.36 - too much!)

    Have cleared my purse of change, and have £46.50 in there. That IS going to last me until Sunday! :T :T :T

    (also back on the case with slimming world today - weigh in tonight, and it's not going to be pretty :eek: Still, onwards and upwards!)
  • Karmacat
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    Wow! Cheery, you did an awful lot in the garden, congratulations! It sounds like August is going to be the month when you soar even higher :)
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  • redsquirrel80
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    You have been busy :D Party sounds good, and you're really getting stuck into the garden!

    Brilliant news on the savings too :T
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  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    What a whirly weekend you have had. The garden sounds great. Could you use the rocks that have been offered to face the wall in some way? Or how about doing a bit of rendering on it and then painting it? Sorry - more work. As for the chair, go for it I can see you sitting in a lovely painted wicker chair at a little bistro table in the garden sipping tea and eating cake. Have a great week.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Cheery_Daff
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    I did think about facing the wall with the stone - but it would take about 7 or 8 inches off the pavement, which I suspect is probably a little bit rude... :p Will certainly consider something else though. Was thinking about painting the breeze blocks white, and I probably would do if they were only in my garden, but they run all the way along the pavement (it's not just the bit I built) so would look rather obtrusive I think! Going to pop into the local friendly paint shop later in the week to see if there's anything that I can paint them with to make them look a bit more stone-coloured...
  • Ooh you have been busy. there is some lovely masonry paint about. Some fantastic colours!
    Trying to shift that debt!
  • Cheery_Daff
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    Needs to be stone coloured sadly so it doesn't make the entire street look like a carnival! :rotfl: (if it was actually in the garden I wouldn't mind, but you can't see it from my house, just everyone else's :rotfl: :rotfl:)

    So - work is going well today :T :T And the soil arrived, and we've shoveled all 2 tonnes of it into the hole :j :j which is now looking remarkably like a nice flat surface to stick some pavings on as opposed to a hole : D:D :D:D:D Also made (and eaten) a nice healthy lunch, and back upstairs working again now :D :j :j
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