Spring attempted to leap into summer this weekend, well only on Saturday really, the sun shone brilliantly all day and in the shade temperatures reached 22 degrees, amazing for February..However Sunday brought us back to spring with a bump, it was cloudy all day and only 13 degrees, but as my wife said nice weather for working in the garden. The outdoor life is returning.
I was sorely tempted to change my plans for the weekend and start working outside however, I resisted and carried on with the first fix of the drains for our two new B&B rooms. It was one of those jobs that after 4 hours work you could not see what I had done. I needed to ensure I got the fall right and then the horrible job of joining the new pipes to the existing pipes, very smelly work. However the worst should now be over, everything is joined up and the junctions for the toilets just need to be capped off until I get round to installing the toilets. The rest of the weekend was spent hacking off the concrete rendering applied to the lovely stonework, whilst some of the rendering fell off rather obligingly there is a section which appears to have had superglue added to the mix which is taking an age to hack off and I am still going to have to go back with something stronger than a hammer and chisel to finish the job.
Meanwhile lots of work was going on in the garden Franca and Fleur were busy tidying up the garden after the ravages of winter (2 big storms and a week of snow), and it was looking rather nice once they had finished.
Now it is on to the next stage of getting some colour into the garden, we are going to start digging out a couple of beds to put flowers in. We will also have to work out where the swimming pool is to go, the biggest one yet, this one should be able to fit adults in, so once its purchased and setup it will be staying there for the summer. This is a temporary measure as we have no chance of getting a swimming pool installed until 2010.
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