We made part of it!

Friday was a busy day, very, very busy. It was the day that we finally started to lay the concrete for the terrace! Steve a friend came to help and we got started at 7:30am to try and avoid the heat of the day later on. The best laid plans as they say....... Luscious was wheelbarrowing the sand from the front of the house to the back and sorting out the gravel as well,Steve was putting the mix together into the mixer and I was raking it out, tamping it down and trying to make sure that it was level! At 09:00 we had the first crisis we were going to run out of gravel due to a miscalculation on my part! Luscious was straight on the phone to the local merchant no problem another 2cubic metres of gravel would be with us before lunch! As good as his word he arrived 45mins later, now that's service. He couldn't get right around to the back of the house but at least it was much much closer than the last lot so not so far to barrow it. Luscious left us to get on with it as she went off to work and at 12:30 Steve had to leave as he had to go and do the shopping for his lady! It left me about 2metres square to finish on my own. The temperature was by now 35° and it took me until 3-o-clock to finish. It really is extremely hard work on your own trying to move sand and gravel round, mixing and then laying the concrete. In fact due to the heat the concrete was starting to go off before I could put a finish on it. I was totally knackered at the end of it all. To top it all we only have about half of it done! Will have to finish it off when we get back from a "rest" in St. Tropez next week.

I use the word "rest" lightly as we are going to be mixing work with pleasure courtesy of Mr. Harley-Davidson, what a hard life we lead eh?Untill we return in 8 days time have a good one and don't work to hard.......