The forecast rain held off and allowed me to embark on my least favourite job of the year - jet-cleaning the patio. I have made two important changes this year - firstly power spray the 'grout' before starting the general clean. I use inverted commas because there is essentially no grout left and in fact it was a case of squirting out a load of mud which I then swept up instead of spreading it around the patio like I normally do. Secondly - get Adam to do the power-cleaning. I followed behind with a broom sweeping the dirty water away. We nearly flooded the house but it looks better and I have ordered something called 'Wet and Forget' as suggested by the local stone yard. They haven't tried it yet and want feedback but Amazon reviews are mostly excellent. So I have aborted my plan to scrub each flagstone with bleach for fear of destroying the biological reagents in the 'Wet and Forget' - apparently all it needs is a bit of rain :0).
On the way to the stone yard (to source stones for round the pond) we took Monty to Fen Drayton Lakes. It's an RSPB reserve and great for flying herons, swans, lapwing etc but you have a chain on a sluice gate...
Three GT:
1. Progress tidying outside even if inside is a slum.
2. Cleaned up the BBQ to cook the steaks that came yesterday - gorgeous even if too cold to eat outside.
3. I've earned a soak in the bath.
A lovely bit of rusty old chain. Well done on the patio cleaning. I refuse to do it and Peter hates doing it so he paid someone else to do it this year!
Guess what's on my list of jobs tomorrow , patio cleaning, it was meant to be this mornings job but it was raining first thing. Lovely tones , textures and colours judith
@mrsbluesky Thank you - I fiddle a bit with PicMonkey - this was taken on manual settings and then I upped the shadows a touch in PicMonkey. On the whole I find myself doing less processing!
The textures, detail and colours here are great, Judith. Haven't been to Drayton Lakes - must suss it out some time. Your patio cleaning sounds very industrious. I haven't yet been motivated to do anything at all in the garden, my excuse being that I've got too much work to do.
@dolphin Well the walk we did wasn't desperately inspiring - think there maybe better paths dog-free and there's another route round a different lake that may be better.
