Seeing results

We woke to gorgeous sunshine, which certainly put a spring in all our steps. We got ready to go out, as some friends of ours had very generously offered us some sand they had left over from their building project, something that we definitely needed a lot of. So first thing we attached the trailer and jumped into the car and drove to their house to pick it up.

My reversing skills with the trailer aren’t great, and with the heavy load of sand we returned with making the trailer even more awkward, I asked Chris if he’d do it for me. He made it look very easy and dropped the trailer into the perfect position.

Before Brian and Chris started on laying the sand, they wanted to create a board structure to help retain the earth for a plant bed on the side. Brian found some suitable planks to use, created some pegs, and started to build the edge to my planting area.

Louise and I spent most of the day on the wall, still chipping away, whilst Brian and Chris worked on the area on the other side of the wall.

Their results were much more visible than ours — I was so pleased with the planting bed they’d created. I just need to order my dahlias now.