No sleep for the wicked!

It’s like Groundhog Day. Here we are at the start of another week and I’m wondering how on earth I failed to post a single word in the last 7 days. My excuse is small and noisy. Daughter, India, seems to have entered a new phase of her campaign to keep Mum and Dad on their toes and now wakes at 4.30am every morning with the sort of wailing that even your average witch doctor would be mighty proud of.

I can confirm that sleep deprivation is one of the best ways of preventing blog posting that I can imagine. The days are spent desperately hanging onto your concentration by consuming industrial quantities of coffee and bought sandwiches. Evenings (ie blog writing time) are just a wreck.

Hopefully India will start a new ‘phase’ sometime soon….!

The culprit... butter wouldn't melt!

 

Prize

I mentioned some time ago that we’d won £1500 worth of stone from CED. Well I was wrong, even better we’d actually won £1500 worth of kit from Probst! I guess most landscapers are kit junkies and Tim is probably up there with the best of them so he had a whale of a time choosing what we wanted from their list. On Friday Nigel Hughes from Probst kindly came down to Stratford and presented Tim with the goods …

Tim (left) and Nigel Hughes with some of our new kit!

We should say here a hearty ‘Thanks Probst’ for their generous sponsorship of the awards. Really appreciated guys!

More York stone…

We had a new load of York stone delivered today and I’m compelled to say that we are now getting some of the best stone we’ve ever had. Not only is it nice and flat with a gently riven surface but it’s not too thick (therefore not too heavy for the guys to lay) and we’ve got a good selection of decent sized pieces. It’s taken a long time for us to find a truly first-class supplier of this stone but we are now  consistently getting a superb product.  I was so impressed I immediately phoned Tim. It might seem slightly odd that after 20 years of using the stuff I still get this level of pleasure out of just looking at a pallet of truly lovely stone but that’s the way it is!