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Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People
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Ok, style, this time not clothes. We have a Brick house. But have always wanted brick paths. Is it ott, just one area of garden?
Not new bricks, but maybe reproduction slabs, some look quite convincing I think....
http://www.pavingcentreonlineltd.co.uk/products_pictures/ws029---1-pic-.jpg
Or
http://meltonbuildingsupplies.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/stonemarket-range/stonemarket-antique-brick.jpg
But is it to matchy, or worse, mismatchy nearly matchy with a brick house? Its just in my small heart garden, two paths and a tiny terrace area big enough for a breakfast table......0 -
oh I am so glad you linked this - thank you - I had no idea what you were talking about but now I think I need one. No matter where I decide to live I will have a garden.
I'd hold off on buying it. Whether it's worth having depends to a large extent on your garden - it's not a first rank tool (i.e. a tool that you're going to need all the time like a border spade, border fork, wheelbarrow (in non-city gardens), secateurs, trowels, or pruning knife.) It's a second rank tool, one which depends on your circumstances - but is handy to have for the right situation such as very heavy clay soils and/or trenching and/or digging up roots)
The bonus of something like a mattock is that it's a buy one, last forever kind of tool. It's the kind of tool which used to go through family lines... there's probably some still in use after a couple of hundred years.
About as long lasting as the Elwell Grass hook's which are still in use today and were made around 1817.“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
lostinrates wrote: »But is it to matchy, or worse, mismatchy nearly matchy with a brick house? Its just in my small heart garden, two paths and a tiny terrace area big enough for a breakfast table......
I think brick paths are very nice in a garden. You can either try to match the house or not... either will work, eventually. They do need a time to weather in whether you use reclaimed or new bricks.
The important thing is to plant fragrant things that spill out and blur the edges of the straight lines...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
Ahh weekend. Going to be lovely weather too.
Sorry to hear about the floods. Without wishing to sound insensitive, I'm bloody glad to be over here.
I've a visit planned at Xmas. I must be mad, leaving an Aussie summer for an English winter.
Also for an Englih Christmas, your mum, old friends and maybe a NP Xmas do. I am very glad for you that you have this trip planned.0 -
I think brick paths are very nice in a garden. You can either try to match the house or not... either will work, eventually. They do need a time to weather in whether you use reclaimed or new bricks.
The important thing is to plant fragrant things that spill out and blur the edges of the straight lines...
Its going to be in my herb garden,
. Fragrant it should be I hope!!! 0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Yeah, there's always one.....
It's not just me who feels that way about my mother, after all, my brother's living in their Kent house, sister #1 lives less than a mile away and pops in every morning and evening (also to see her horses, mind you) and sister #2 has, in the last couple of months, at the age of 29, moved out of the main house in Kent - all the way to the newly-converted oasthouse, 100 yards away.
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Fast forward a year or two and I might be posting that DD has moved out to the newly converted EGLU if I am lucky.
If being a good mum keeps adult offspring at home I might not consider that a result.0 -
lostinrates wrote: »Ok, style, this time not clothes. We have a Brick house. But have always wanted brick paths. Is it ott, just one area of garden?
Not new bricks, but maybe reproduction slabs, some look quite convincing I think....
http://www.pavingcentreonlineltd.co.uk/products_pictures/ws029---1-pic-.jpg
Or
http://meltonbuildingsupplies.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/stonemarket-range/stonemarket-antique-brick.jpg
But is it to matchy, or worse, mismatchy nearly matchy with a brick house? Its just in my small heart garden, two paths and a tiny terrace area big enough for a breakfast table......
Are these bricks frost-proof?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Fast forward a year or two and I might be posting that DD has moved out to the newly converted EGLU if I am lucky.
If being a good mum keeps adult offspring at home I might not consider that a result.
My mum would definitely have preferred it if I hadn't moved so far away (maybe not quite as close as under the same roof though). I think she has just about got her heard around the fact it isn't likely to happen any time soon.
I think she sees it the other way - that she wasn't a good mum and that is why we don't live so nearby. This isn't the case at all, we were just brought up to do what we wanted to do education and job-wise and that has led us elsewhere.0 -
oh I am so glad you linked this - thank you - I had no idea what you were talking about but now I think I need one. No matter where I decide to live I will have a garden.
I had pictured a mattock as some kind of larva (I think it was the 'grubbing' bit).
I have a lot to learn about this gardening business (esp as I now have one to maintain
) - I'm pretty sure my parents have never had a mattock so that is my excuse for that particular ignorance 
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SILVERCAR is amazing. Thank you. 0
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