the gods conspired against me today i think

went to mum and dad's this morning after breakfast (got there about 9). it took me pretty much all morning to clean up the additional area which needs to be paved because it was full of roots. then i had to fix the reticulation. I tried to patch it up, but this proved to be a complete waste of time in the end so I had to get in the car and drive to the hardware store (about 20mins away) and buy some new retic pipe, drive back and fix it. In the end it was ok.

Because of the gap in time since i laid the bricks originally, the issues with the retic and the changes which are required i had to pull up 3-4 metres of bricks I had already laid to make sure i can get it all level and solid. then when i went to compact the area i had cleaned up i found that the compacting tool we had made was missing. Emilio had taken it home so that job has to wait until tomorrow (as i picked it up again on the way home).

Then i started to cut some of the bricks which need to be cut to finish the job and the power went off in the whole area and it stayed off for over an hour. In the end i gave up, did a couple of other small jobs for mum, had a shower and left.

On the way home I got a coffee, read the paper and here i am ready to do it all over again tomorrow.

Hopefully I will be more efficient and effective.