What a day! (by alaric)
- 10:00am: Finish the fourth coat of varnish on a bit of furniture we're varnishing.
- 10:30am: Start hand-mixing a 25kg sack of cement+sand mortar with water
- 10:45am: Start hacking stones out of the rubble pile with a pickaxe, and mortaring then into place in the wall I'm building
- 11:30am: Using the pickaxe, dig out the low points of our compacted stone and mud parking area (you can easily find the low points, after a rainy night they're lakes), and then apply the pickaxe to the rubble heap again to loosen up hardcore and shovel it into the holes, as an interim fix to the pooling-water problem.
- 12:30am: Go and have breakfast with wife and child
- 01:00pm: Head off to investigate a nearby builder's merchant type place, to see if their cement is cheaper than B&Qs, and to consider gravel to cover the parking area in, and to generally mooch around.
- 02:00pm: Head down to the excellent John Stayte Services to pick up 80kg of coal, then swing by Tescos for a few essentials and to stop so Sarah can have a coffee
- 03:30pm: Get home, put Jean to bed for a nap, and make and eat lunch
- 05:30pm: Rush out, realising we're late for the district Cub and Scout swimming gala.
- 09:00pm: Get home, put Jean to bed since she's tired and teething
- 09:30pm: Deal with laundry, and add some more varnish to the furniture
- 09:45pm: Cook and eat dinner
- 11:00pm: Wash up, bank the fire so it'll stay lit overnight, load the dishwasher, etc.
- 11:45pm: Blog about it all.
- 12:00pm: Put away huge piles of laundry so we can get to our bed and sleep in it.
- 01:40am: Finish putting away laundry. Get into bed. Start attempting to sleep.
I need an extra weekendend to recover from my weekends!
Sat 3rd Mar 2007 11:56 pm 
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