Outdoor Space For Seating and Eating.

Hi and good Monday morning to you.

I have just got back from Aber after dropping Alfie off as he is going to be in Cardiff for three days on a school trip. Afterwards I picked up some compost and germaniums; the latter are to bulk up the planter outside one of the Airbnb rooms.

Weather here was not been too shabby toward the end of last week which, as often happens, lead to an Airbnb booking made on Friday for Saturday. 

Another busy weekend in the good weather here at Chez Houghton as usual which began with Friday's delivery of a couple of tonne bags of stones for the outside project that Jon has been working on. In the week he had already put the new sections in to stop the chooks getting in and edged it ready for membrane and the stones. This whole project began, in a way. so we can let the chooks free range without kicking up all the bark around the bbq!

This hunk of timber came home with Jon from the sawmill the same day to be used for one lot of seating; he'd had his eye on it for a while and had it stashed away - as far as you can actually stash something this big -and now he had the perfect project for it.

He also came home with some huuuge disks to use at the base for the seat which needed a bit of a tweak.

On Saturday morning he headed back to the sawmill for the second log to be used for the other seating. He and Alfie had to go a bit Heath Robinson / Egyptian rollers plus a good lot of elbow grease and a ratchet strap, of course, but they got it in position in the end.

Next step was some sanding and shaping with the chainsaw until we were happy with the feel of them.

Then, Jon set to putting down the stones whilst I made sure no weeds were coming though.

The next jobs were varnishing and painting; this I think looks stunning. I can't help thinking what it would cost if you commissioned somebody to create what we know have; I luckily have a Jon!

And eeeek! ta da the final result which I am so very very pleased with.

Ok, 11 am so need to get on with something now, after just one more coffee! I'm without anybody to run after, make brews or snacks for until 4pm today. Woop woop but must not waste the day away - balance a bit of me time and also getting some jobs done now that this post is finished.

Bye for now.

Lou.xx