More Freecycle Paving Slabs

I went to collect the second load of paving slabs this afternoon once I had caught up with the breakfast and medication I had missed because of the PET/CT Scan this morning at St Georges Hospital.

I backed the car up to the plot 1 entrance and popped open the boot. The French Climbing Bean plants have turned yellow since the beans were harvested.

Then removed the five thinner 450 x 450mm slabs and washed them off as I stacked them so they would not be as dusty to handle when they go to their final home. I had a rest and hydrated

With the lighter blocks gone I was left with the two just over half vintage thicker blocks and the eight half blocks to move. Again they were moved to what was the asparagus bed, and washed as they were stacked criss-crossed to aid future lifting and man handling.

After the trouble I had lifting the vintage 450x450mm 40-50mm thick concrete slabs out of the car and into the wheel barrow and then out of the wheel barrow and stacking yesterday, I was only interested in the more modern 20mm think 450mm x 450mm slabs and the thicker half slabs and slightly larger slabs.

This means I was gutted to leave the 41 remaining vintage slabs, but realistically I was bound to injure myself with the vintage slabs. I promised the guy I would remove them and I have a friend who is after slabs and has a fit and healthy husband with access to a small lorry and van who will clear them.

So this is the pile of slabs I have picked up in the last week, those full thick vintage slabs may well come under my angle grinder and be cut in half because I have not got the strength to handle then without doing myself a mischief.

Go back three months, before the steroids and I would not have had the strength in my hands and wrists let alone my hips and legs to lift these into the boot and from the boot into and out of the wheel barrow, and stack. That pile at the bottom of the photo nearly killed me yesterday.

So the slabs picked up this afternoon are the ones on the right side of the framed bed, in the photo above.

Ripe Crimson range and blight resistant tomatoes harvested and onions from the drying rack brought home.