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Tom is building the retaining wall for the front garden, another exciting point as the garden will look less like a building site and more like a garden again.
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A huge piece of the Hornton blue that Tom cut yesterday. You can see how hard it is from the marks made by the angle grinder.
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Dan is cutting the oak architrave for the bathroom door with this big monster.
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The new oak architrave with old elm. Once oiled they will match.
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More bathroom shelves! The brackets are up and the shelves are being made out of more old elm floorboards.
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George cleaning and tidying up the old stone ready for Tom to use in the wall.
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In between us and our neighbour we are having a flower bed built into the top of the wall so we can grow a lovely wall of flowers.
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The rest of the wall is being filled in with big chunks of stone, pieces that are no good for the faced wall, so nothing is getting wasted.
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Our mountain of stone has turned into a small hill and there should be just enough to finish the wall.
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The three smaller elm shelves for the bathroom, cut and sanded, ready for oiling.
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Look at the pretty patterns!