Freecycle Paving Slabs

 

It's been a busy morning, a trip to Cheam to pick up 12 number 450 x450mm paving slabs and four broken or half slabs. Load them up into the boot and the half slabs on the rear passenger seat. and then carefully as there is more weight in the car than I'm used to having get them to the allotment.

I'm so glad I trimmed the frees and bushes back along the main path next to my allotment entrance, as I once again reversed the car to the entrance of plot 1.

I then had to decide where I was going to stack these paving slabs and decided to clear all the bind weed off what was once the asparagus bed and I've stacked them there to help cover the bind weed, until I can convert the framed surface beds into two smaller raised beds and need them for the path in between the new raised beds.

The steroids I'm on have made it possible to grip and lift the slabs but it was not a fast exercise, it took time and a number of rest stops, and reminded me that I'm 67 and the muscle pains in the morning will tell me that my body has not done this kind of thing for a couple of years, but it's wonderful to be able to do this after not being able for the last two years.

On the way home I dropped off to pick up a stairgate also off Freecycle to keep my grandson from wondering where he shouldn't now he is mobile.