w/e 2026-07-05

I completed a thing this week which, these days, feels like a major event. I spent two more days working on the lawn edging which I began a month ago (and continued). Behold, the before and after photos: There’s about 14 metres around the conservatory and down one side of the house and the process was – of course! – harder work and more time-consuming that anticipated. The day after I’d spent one morning sledge-hammering in the remaining half of the 45cm pegs, including a couple of very stubborn ones, my hands were aching all over. I didn’t even know hands could ache, other than from RSI, such a soft-handed computer man am I. I did have to make two more trips to the builders’ merchant, for another length of wood and six bags of sharp sand, and then for six bags of gravel (on top of the two I’d already used in order to estimate how much I’d need in total). Having been once recently these trips didn’t require as much psyching myself up, although it still took me an age to dither over…