DIY Heroes!

The weather wasn't going to stop us making progress with the back garden today. Even promising sea watching weather couldn't tear me away. I was back out there at 8am, and Jess joined me for an hour or so. 

This is how it was looking mid morning...

Not long after taking this photo - Phil and Bun appeared!  Clearly they couldn't take endless updates about garden progress on my twitter feed! That and they're bloody nice blokes.  This is how it looked about an hour later...

Fully dismantled!

It just means we've got quite a lot of wood to deal with now.  My chainsaw can't really hack it - so if anyone wants any wood it's free to a good home.  You'll just need to collect it and remove a fair few screws and nails...

DIY

When Jess and I moved in to our lovely house in October 2012, this is how the back garden looked...

Over the summer, we put several pot plants out there, and a bird table, so it looked nicer and a bit loved. At the end of the day it was still a load of decking though.

On Wednesday of this week, this is how the back garden looked...

Pretty much the same!  But this is how it looked at the end of today...

We've wanted to do something with it from day one, and after a visit and some advice from Phil, we now know what we want to do. The project has begun.  

I hate DIY. I don't do DIY. Thankfully Jess knew long before buying a house with me this was the case, and accepts it, so actually in doing this I am getting brownie points by the lorry load! But with every panel I take up, I ask myself why we've not got people in doing it for us?  Well that's because we've got a wedding to pay for.

I did hear several Whimbrel whilst out there this morning, so all this physical out door labour does have its perks!