In your garden now

CharlieG

In our garden this morning - a red squirrel and a sparrowhawk although not at the same time.

YoungParisian_inExile

CharlieG Found a pigeon that had been decapitated by a sparrowhawk in the communal courtyard the other morning. Asked the servants to clean it up 🎩

Djpekingman

YoungParisian_inExile Sure it was a Sparrowhawk? Rats will decapitate a pigeon....

fuzzy

YoungParisian_inExile Seems that way at times. For the sake of balance, lived at this house for 16 years and this is the first crime of any kind we've experienced.

Placid

Anyone built a wall in their garden..? I think Im gonna try

Djpekingman

Placid I've built loads of walls. Brick walls, block walls, stone walls, dry stone walls, tall walls, small walls, medium sized wall, house walls... What kind of do you intend to build, what size and for what purpose?

Placid

Djpekingman Its only a couple of courses on top of a wall thats already there, Im going to try and build step at a right angle to it. This where it will get tricky. Pictures to follow

Placid

Djpekingman I've built loads of walls. Brick walls, block walls, stone walls, dry stone walls, tall walls, small walls, medium sized wall, house walls... What kind of do you intend to build, what size and for what purpose?

You've just been awarded the chief surveyor and site manager job. Congratulations.

Placid

Placid Its only a couple of courses on top of a wall thats already there, Im going to try and build step at a right angle to it. This where it will get tricky. Pictures to follow

Fuck me, I did such a shit job Im ashamed of the pointing. Had to get some student in to finish last course. Currently doing a gabion and Im putting off getting on with it. Some proper procrastination

Djpekingman

Placid Excellent. I'll be working remotely. I'll invoice you weekly.

otis

A load of shit

90Piesanhour

Washing drying, if you see what I mean. Also, a Robin.

Bod

Placid you gotta build that shed as well

Placid

There are 3 different "bricklayers" pointing on here.. guess which is mine... 😁

Placid

Bod you gotta build that shed as well

Going with a pre bought sips one, got a decent deal compared to retail and paying a young lad to fit it with me. He'll be measuring, I'll be lifting and carrying.

I'll post a picture of my "pointing" later today. I love gabion baskets.. lends to my level of masonry skills. *put stones in a basket.

Got some wild flowers to sew as well. Not sure how they'll turn out, planting them on a grassy bank on iffy topsoil. Might just mix with topsoil and scatter them, let nature decide.

Raposa

Gave the grass its first mow yesterday,
Gonna buy one of those scarifiers to aerate and pull all the moss and other shite up,
Been meaning to get one for a couple of years now.

Placid

Raposa Gonna buy one of those scarifiers to aerate and pull all the moss and other shite up,
Been meaning to get one for a couple of years now.

Oh my god!! Ive just done that this week. They're ace. It looks a dog for a bit but comes back lovely.

I got one for £60 from B and Q, have to empty the bag loads. Bought some grass seed and mixed it with top soil and put it on the grass. I'm slightly obsessed with the lawn.

Placid

Placid
Post scarification and aeration...

Look at this cheeky skyrat!!

Djpekingman

Placid You know they have tools for this kind of thing? You don't have to put it on with your bare hands.

Bod

Placid you've used a wrong mix as well, far too much cement

hendersonjones

Placid
First cut of the year let the cut grass lie on the lawn

Young_Marxist_at_Tescos

Djpekingman
I thought he’d used a JCB

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