Hammers And Picks

Its been quite a busy day for me today with plenty to keep me more than occupied, so once I've had breakfast I'm out and about getting jobs done.

My first stop is the bank since I have to withdraw some money to pay for Rupert who we are picking up tomorrow, so after providing umpteen bit of information to prove who I am they finally hand over the cash. Once I've done that to make the most of my parking ticket I nip to one of the local book stores to see if they have any good books on rearing puppies, which they do so I pick 2 up which should provide some useful information about the correct way to do things.

I then go back home and get changed and ready to go to the gym where I spend the next 2 hours doing my thing and once I've done and come home again I have some lunch and then set about starting the edging around the lawn. It was all going very well up to the point where the exact place where I need to put one of the stakes happens to be the exact point in time and space that someone had decided to bury a breeze block. It's too big for me to dig out of the edge of the lawn (besides i would have left a great big hole and messed up the nice straight line I'd just dug) so instead of trying to excavate it I get a pick and use it in a chisel like motion to bore a hole right through the block so the stake would penetrate it nicely. It worked well but took ages to get right and I still had to hammer the sh*t out of it to get it to go where it should be going. And so I gradually worked my way around the rest of the garden until I got to the final corner which will take a bit more planning as the meter strips need cutting down to the correct size. It will have to wait for another day though because its getting late and I need to grab a shower and start tea so Phil has something to at when he gets home and I don't smell of rancid sweat and dirt.

The evening is pretty quiet and we have a relatively early night since I managed to miscalculate our start time to get to Abergavenny for 10 am by about an hour. Oops :)

Posted by Abi on the June 23, 2006 9:14 PM