Hard work and aching bones

Up till now this week has been a busy one for me. On Tuesday the weather was perfect for work in the garden so I decided to complete one of the alterations that my wife and I had thought out for the garden this year.

One of the alterations was to extend the area were we have our garden bench, it’s a place were we sit mostly in the evenings to enjoy the evening sun. Now laying paving stones is not an easy job at any time and for a layman plain hard labour. It took me a complete day to do the job but I must admit in between I had to drive to the local do it yourself super market to buy one or two items that I needed to finish the job. Getting out of bed the next day was plain agony I had aches and pains all over, there are muscles I never knew I had (must be getting old)

My wife is busy putting a collection together of hand crochet doilies that she had made over the last year (she also knits socks). On Saturday (tomorrow) we have been invited to the international English Library in Düsseldorf. They are holding their annual spring sale of books and handcrafts. Our neighbours (live across the road from us) who are English and she runs the library asked my wife if she would like to take part in the spring sales. Ten percent of what you sell goes to the library for the buying of new books. My wife reckons she won’t sell much and I told her “you don’t know till you have tried.

The winter has returned to many parts of Germany this week, down south they had night frost of minus 15 degrees and in other parts of Germany they have had heavy snow falls. We again have been lucky, night frost around 4 degrees and no snow.

The photos are; Me laying the stones. The finished job. Just a small sample of the doilies.

Take care out there were ever you are. Tschüss.