Day 347 - Garden guest

Found this fellow in the garden when I went to move the skirting boards I was *storing* there



Over the years we've seen several frogs in the garden - seems strange as there's no water nearby. And I don't think he's big enough to eat slugs.

Day 237 - Landscaping begins

This is part of the base for the rear landscaping

 
View from the back upstairs bedroom - this used to be our garden! The builder's shed has now gone


Earth moving at the front


The remains of the old concrete drive that will be part of the base for the new driveway

Day 9 - Rubble and mess

The back garden



The pile of garage floor rubble waiting to go in the mystery hole.


Where the garage floor used to be


The mystery hole

Day 7/8 - Landscaping is hard

Decisions, decisions. Shaun has told us it'll be much cheaper/easier if we can decide on the hard landscaping before Tuesday while the digger is still here and access to the back is easy.


So Sunday we spent planning the back & front landscaping measuring what we hope will be an adequate patio without losing all the remaining garden, given that a big chunk of the garden will be taken up by the greenhouse and the trampoline.



We decided that the cherry tree out the front can go, the birds ate all the cherries anyhow and we planned the front borders.



On Monday the cherry tree came down



and the first load of bricks arrived