Scary Stuff!!!

Just spent a few days over in Venice with Lorri - it was a fantastic short break with excellent weather and a thoroughly interesting place to be.

There was however a bit more reason for going to Venice than just wanting to see the place - I also wanted to propose to Lorri which I did. She accepted so it looks like we're looking at getting married sometime in September/October next year.

Chuffed to bits that she said yes - thought for a long time that marriage really wasn't for me, but about a couple of months ago I started thinking about it, and the more I thought the more I felt it was definitely what I wanted to do - I'm very lucky to have found someone as lovely as Lorri.

Enjoy the pix

First Easter at our house

Had the family and Ray round for Easter Sunday - unfortunately Jess and Dan couldn't make it as they are off to Canada today, and it was also a bit sad with my Grandad not being there - or maybe he was depending on what you believe.

Things went more or less to plan, Lorri made the most fantastic Sunday lunch and the only real problem we had is that we don't really have all the neccessary plates and knives and stuff so we had to frantically washup knives and plates and stuff between servings. Also think that we're going to have to think about getting a bigger table as I think we would struggle to fit Jess and Dan in anyway if they had been able to come, but that'll have to wait as we're just concentrating on getting the garden sorted out.

We should have a new fence up within the next few weeks, and then we're looking to get a builder in to lay a concrete base over the existing patio so that we can get a nice new 'flat' one put down.

We should also have the path taken up within a few weeks, and the silly patio at the back. The plan then is to simply grass the whole garden for the moment, and use the back patio stones to make a path and finish off with a Leylandii hedge at the back to give us a bit of privacy - and that will probably be it for this year.

I'll maybe put some plans on here for people to look over when I've done them.

Some new pictures of the house

Haven't added any recent pictures of our progress with the house so here's what it looks like now.

Also included a picture of the Tortoise table that Lorri and myself built.

Still a long way to go with things, although we're especially proud of the garden - hours of design and hard work to get it lookto this good! Just need a 1:18 scale model of a JCB and 4 or 5 guys standing around doing nothing and it will be complete.