How does your garden grow?

The lawn before

The Garden has given us the most pleasure so far. We have spent hours in there chopping and hacking at everything. There is ivy everywhere and we have cut it at the base of all the trees but it still needs stripping at the top. Tig wants to use our climbing harnesses so that he can get right to the top safely. We've managed to fill all 60 feet of the lawn with all the cut down bushes and tree limbs we've produced from our mini wood on the other side. It's taking a while to chop up but it's just so peaceful there that we don't mind. You can't hear any cars and because of the large green area next to our property there are loads of birds that fill the air with their song.

The lawn after

The wooded area

Meanwhile in the bathroom

Before

While Tig has been hard at work in the sitting room I have had the task of taking off the tiles in the Bathroom. An easy task I hear you cry. No, not when they've been stuck on with cement! It's proving easier to get the plaster off than the cement. After doing about four hours in total over the weekend I hurt and I haven't even done half of it yet. Guess what I'm doing over the bank holiday weekend.

hours after

The Fireplace

The original fire place

When we first looked at the property we thought that the fireplace had probably just had a gas fire in it. Once we bought the flat and we started pulling things apart we realised that the person before us had been using a real fire and that it had just been boarded over. Toby really wants to put a wood burning stove in and hated the fireplace so he demolished it. Whilst doing that we have discovered some quite nice brickwork underneath so Tig is taking the whole chimney stack in the sitting room back to the bricks.

Demolition

Tig is "Demolition Man"