Think you’ve nailed it Bob, they are a great way of exercising, very respectable, out with the dog(s) 
When we lost the other ‘Bear’ our St Bernard, it broke our hearts and I vowed I could not go through that again 
Anyway, fast forward 6 months and we got Barney! It’s just not the same, out walking without a dog. We obviously downsized a bit though 
Barrie
Blimey Barrie I’d sooner feed him for a week rather than a fortnight LOL, lovely dog though , Ellie is our third one now all have been Jack Russells , you sure do miss them when they pass away though , but as I always say to my wife at least we’ve given them a good life .
So, things have moved on a bit further today. Despite some rain, I’ve managed to lay the kerbs in the new position, haunch them too and dig out the last of the soil, placing it to the rear of the kerbs. The materials arrived mid morning so go stuck in until mid afternoon. These are the results.
The blocks were ordered from a thumbnail photo but are almost a perfect match!
The one on the right is original, the left one is the new.
I’m on track to start laying blocks tomorrow with a view to completing them over the weekend 
TBH though, there are loads of cuts and that will be time consuming. I’ve saved all the original cut blocks, some might fit the gaps 
The boundary wall looks atrocious but it belongs to next door, the render is falling off and it all just is a mess. I’m thinking that I will clean off the loose render and get some masonry paint on it. After all, it’s me that has to look at it. The neighbour just isn’t bothered, his gable end has also been rendered and looks almost as bad!
Barrie
Just had my online spirit level on your block work so far Barrie, 
spot on plumb level.
Was going mention the wall, cheeky git I am, stuff like that bothers me😁. I had to paint the end gable of my neighbours shed, fair do’s he can’t see it or get to it but it’s awful to look at, not any more👍
Great work.
Hi Mick. Yes, the neighbour is a weirdo TBH. We have quoins at the corners of our gables. Unfortunately, they’re not tied in properly and there’s movement on the bed joints. Not a problem, no damp or whatever but the neighbour ( when, or if we speak) always comments on this. His gable is literally dropping to bits! He is oblivious to this although tells me he has damp walls? Anyway, he wasn’t happy about our flowering cherry blocking his sun, I caught him spraying god knows what on the one nearest to him a few years ago. I nearly killed him! Only now back to some sort of speaking! The joys of neighbours! If you have good ones, they are worth a fortune!
Needless to say, I will ask his permission to improve his decaying boundary wall but will probably do it regardless! 
Barrie
Yeah we are ok with the neighbours next door, do each other favours now and again. Keep a watch on the house and stuff when each are on holiday and stuff like that
Can’t say the same for the ones at the back of us now, lovely folk who left there some years ago (still see them occasionally) now it’s a rented house. Not very sociable at all, never speak and the garden is starting to grow over on to ours, ivy everywhere. A new fence went up between us, their fence not mine, I ended up paying to have it done because they couldn’t care less. What was left of the fence was falling into our garden, submitted a bill to their landlord after telling them I’m going to get it sorted because he wouldn’t. Still waiting for the money even after I agreed to go halves, that was 10 years ago, still no payment.
Got quite a bit done yesterday
. I ended up taking them all out, plus more of the existing ones, following the drainage channel as a base line, like the rest of the forecourt. This has resulted in this,Seeing you do this Barrie reminds me of when my brother in law and myself laid my driveway about 25 years ago , he was working on the roads at that time so he brought home the 3 ton tipper wagon , compressor and Jack hammer. We dug all the old tarmac out laid sharp sand and compressed it all with a plate whacker. Laid new blocks over the next few days and whacked them down . Job turned out well blocks are still there today . Bl@@dy near killed me how anyone can do it for a living I don’t know. Keep up the good work.
Well, almost there now!
Nice neat job and I bet satisfying to say, I’ve just done that.
I bought the Rolson 110mm diamond tipped cutting disc from Amazon to cut some concrete slabs when I did the back garden. Less than £4 delivered, cut through the slabs very easily, bargain. Something I may not use again for sometime but a tool worth having.
I should be out doing car stuff today, can’t be bothered TBH, missus had me up and out at Sainsbury’s for 8am this morning, feel like a zombie now.
Funny that Mick, I’ll probably not use this beast again but its there if anyone wants to borrow it I suppose. Daughter moves into their new house in the new year and plenty of projects there i reckon? 
Barrie
Looks better than the original blocks.
You could always use the grinder for chopping off the sills on yer 5 when they go rusty, it will make short work of them.
Nice looking job that Barrie , yes those diamond cutters do the job a treat . I’ve had one in my shed for many years as you say it’s not a thing that you will often use , but it’s always there if you need it.
Thanks everyone, appreciated! You know when you ‘ahem’ mature we’ll say, the mind is always willing, its the body that has not kept up! just how I feel now, very achy and tired, it’s took a week from start to finish, which I guess isn’t too bad? Not at it all the time either so mustn’t grumble. Just been on the scales after a hot bath and a few pounds shed not as much as the pounds that have gone from the wallet though
Barrie
That’s an amazing looking job Barrie. Sometimes we may think of getting the professionals in but when you want it doing right then doing it yourself is the way to go.
What happened to the bit that didn’t meet up? did you take one side up and relay them?
So all rooms sorted with AV kit. Back garden sorted. Front sorted. What’s next?
Hi Paul, yes I ended up taking a load more up and sort of fudged it all in ( to use a technical term! Worked out fine in the end and TBH, its a parking space, covered by a vehicle most of the time. Different if maybe a patio area or whatever 
What’s next? Well, when I fitted the LED floods in the rear garden, they replaced two that I had only just bought (same company) but relied on a small remote to control them. We weren’t 'smart then, we are now though 
So, the idea is to mount them at the base of the two flowering cherries and illuminate the entire tree (times two) wire baskets to protect the lamps, all connected via a smart plug so they can be scheduled or voice controlled with various colour scenes. Very Christmas like 
Today, thats a thought, tomorrow, who knows!
Barrie
A little update …
We are all backed up, ordered the SSD, hoping for it today but got this yesterday below to start with.
Play time maybe tomorrow.
Never one to slow down, I’ve done bit more to the new paved area, well, the adjacent wall at least. The wall belongs to my neighbour, who has no interest or intention to tidy it up.
I removed all the loose render (which didn’t take a lot of doing, and it ended up looking like this.
It’s certainly tidied it all up. Bought a load of bulbs to put in and a few plants also. Mrs B will sort that over the weekend hopefully! 
Barrie
That looks a lot better Barrie .
Inspired… 
