My relaxing holiday

I took the short week off last week with plans to do some work around the house and computer gaming.  I ended up doing very little gaming as I enjoyed the house work so much.  I did get the been there done that achievment on GW2 finished.

So, what did I do?

1.  Oiled a table
2.  Sanded and varnished the walls of my parents veranda
3.  Smashed up about a metre of the old wash house concrete floor in the back yard.
4.  Pulled up metal pipes from various places in the yard and dug around another 2 to get the angle grinder in to cut them
5.  Dug down and found the old plastic drain pipe in the front yard and identified it will have to come
6.  Scraped back the font door and sanded about 1/2 of one side down to wood (lovely silky oak grain)
7. Baked a cake
8.  Chopped up some roots with a hatchett
9. installed 1/2 the irrigation system
10. Set my parents up with an NBN contract
11. Selected some paints and put test patches on my back veranda in anticipation of painting it when its rebuilt






2.  Thanks to Andrea for mentioning that she did this with a block of concrete in her yard, thus stimulating me to have a go.  I think mine will be easier overall - no metal reinforcing and its thin and crumbly (except where its reinforced with big rocks)

5.  I think the footpath section will require a digger.  Doing it by hand will result in a long slow process where there is a gaping hole in the footpath that someone could fall into and sue me.

7.  Mmmm delicious, I adapted a boiled fruitcake recipe to have walnuts, cherries and dates instead of mixed fruit

8.  Now to install the other 1/2 (other side of the driveway, attached to the front hose instead of the back)