Ups and downs

It was a bit of a scorcher yesterday.

We’d been and picked up a couple of sun loungers and another parasol for by the pool, which we’d ordered from Weldom the previous week. They were still in the barn, so the first task was to get them up to the pool.

In theory that should be quite easy, but we had also bought 4 rather large and heavy paving slabs to take up, which we had bought to secure the umbrella in place. We were able to strap them one at a time to the trolley and Brian pulled them up the slope. It was heavy and very hot work. A few trips up and down and we had taken everything up there, however, that was probably the easy bit, as we then needed to put them all up!

We started with the parasol, so that we could create some shade. it was in three main sections which went together quite quickly.

Brian wasted no time in getting under it, and guzzled down a bottle of water. It really was a scorcher.

I’d laid out the first of the sun beds. It wasn’t difficult to put together, it just seemed to have a lot of screws.

They must have taken us a good hour to fit them both together.

We obviously needed to try them out before our guests arrived. So a nice little cup of tea, before we tidied up and went back down the slope to prepare for dinner.