February 2008

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Waking up this morning I was hearing the GMTV crew talking about earthquakes.  Half asleep, I thought that this must have been somewhere else in the world as I heard mumblings of 5.2 on the Rhicter Scale.  The geography teacher in me suddenly started thinking I should be recording this with Sky+ whereas the ICT teacher was… Read more

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Well I say almost, but there is still so much to do, but for now we have finished what we can in the garden.  We have extended the patio outside the dining room, doubled the widths of the paths at the back of the house, made a double path from back to front of the garden and half created a larger patio. Still to do is to… Read more

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Today we finally got round to the part of the work that lets you see instant results for your efforts.  After all the preparation of the last week, today it was finally down to flag laying. I have laid 3 patios in the past.  Some at my house and some at others and each time we seem to use a different method.  Today was no… Read more

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Unfortunately the weather seems to be beating us again today as there has been no work carried out.  The reason is simple in that the ground is frozen solid.  It isn’t good to be cementing things when the weather is freezing cold as the cement doesn’t set right. However I did, today, take delivery of all the rest of the… Read more

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For a while now I have hosted a numver of website on the internet and therefore it was clear that I was going to need a host.  Back in early 2007 I did my research and came across a budget hosting company with good reviews called Streamline.net.  For a while everything was great and the standard of service was good.  How… Read more

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Having had a well deserved rest day yesterday it was back to work today in the garden.  With lots to do it was important to make good progress.  We needed to finish the wall for the raised bed and get all the flagged areas dub out as the hardcore for underneath should arrive tomorrow. We actually only started at about… Read more

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The end of day two and after lots of digging and other work to do I am shattered.  Therefore here are some photos of the days work! — Garden Work Part… Read more