We decided to get Mike to do the rebuilding of the garden wall for us at Haig, and that we would take on the front garden by ourselves. As always, stage one is clearance, and I must say that we've made some fantastic progress yesterday and today - we've knocked down all of the wall to the left of the gate looking out (well, those bits of it that hadn't fallen down already) and we've pretty much cleared the garden. We liberally applied the weedkiller before we left, and hopefully that will have soaked in well before the rain started. Next time we go we can do some more raking up and digging over, and then I think that we should be ready for membrane and gravel.
(Lots more Haig photos now uploaded to Flickr.)
We also had a trip over to B&Q this afternoon to make some notes of prices for a few things:
- light fitting for kitchen
- interior door handles
- paint (lots of it - walls, ceilings, gate, garage, garage door ...)
- sprayer + lots of stain for garden fence
- wood and plastic sheeting for new garage windows
Keeps us out of mischief!