Dizzo update
Apr. 12th, 2026 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dizzojaySome of you may be aware that we have been undertaking some garden work over the last six months.
Our back garden was comprised of a patio which was almost 30 years old and time, together with a freaking great big tree root, had not been kind to it.
In short, it was a wreck!
Because of that, we had lost interest in maintainng it, so over the last two or three years it never got cleaned or patched up.
This was what it looked like in October 2025.
We had it relaid in October 2025, and since then, over the winter we had worked on it, in terms of storage and bunny proofing.
Then, this Easter, with a nice bit of birthday money in my pocket, we treated ourselves to some nice garden furniture so we could finally sit out and enjoy our lovely new patio.
This is what it looks like now.
We are so thrilled with it, and christened it with a bottle of wine on Good Friday.
We will have a few more little jobs to do in it (you can't see the big messy rubbish tip pile in the photo because it was behind me), and one of those jobs is smartening up the stone animals in the garden that are all a bit weathered and worn. The weather wasn't nice enough this weekend to sit out and really get stuck in to hours of paining, but I did manage to paint a couple of little decorative tiles.
When the original patio was laid, it was finished on my thirtieth birthday, and as a surprise birthday present, the builder snuck a couple of little fun tiles into the patio for us to discover later. One was a horseshoe for me, because I was big into horse riding back then, and one was a smiley face for Barry.
The smiley face was built into the doorstep which is still there, and we retrieved the horseshoe before the old patio went. We'll find a home for it in the new garden.
They were both fairly sorry looking as you would expect for something that had been exposed to the British weather for so many years, so this weekend I was able to give them both some TLC, ready for their next few years with us!
Our back garden was comprised of a patio which was almost 30 years old and time, together with a freaking great big tree root, had not been kind to it.
In short, it was a wreck!
Because of that, we had lost interest in maintainng it, so over the last two or three years it never got cleaned or patched up.
This was what it looked like in October 2025.
We had it relaid in October 2025, and since then, over the winter we had worked on it, in terms of storage and bunny proofing.
Then, this Easter, with a nice bit of birthday money in my pocket, we treated ourselves to some nice garden furniture so we could finally sit out and enjoy our lovely new patio.
This is what it looks like now.
We are so thrilled with it, and christened it with a bottle of wine on Good Friday.
We will have a few more little jobs to do in it (you can't see the big messy rubbish tip pile in the photo because it was behind me), and one of those jobs is smartening up the stone animals in the garden that are all a bit weathered and worn. The weather wasn't nice enough this weekend to sit out and really get stuck in to hours of paining, but I did manage to paint a couple of little decorative tiles.
When the original patio was laid, it was finished on my thirtieth birthday, and as a surprise birthday present, the builder snuck a couple of little fun tiles into the patio for us to discover later. One was a horseshoe for me, because I was big into horse riding back then, and one was a smiley face for Barry.
The smiley face was built into the doorstep which is still there, and we retrieved the horseshoe before the old patio went. We'll find a home for it in the new garden.
They were both fairly sorry looking as you would expect for something that had been exposed to the British weather for so many years, so this weekend I was able to give them both some TLC, ready for their next few years with us!
