Handy Man Heaven!!

My handyman came round today and totally cleared the ground floor of the cottage at the bottom of the garden :-) Its still a wreck of a shell, but at least its not still full of cr*p!! And he also managed to get Mr Messy's pride and joy restoration vehicle in the garage end of the cottage - not as easy as it sounds as its been up on axel stands on the drive for about 12 months!! But he managed to put the wheels back on, start it (using the battery out of his own van lol) and get it safely in the garage. Little Prince's is now in no danger of sliding off the end of his slide and banging straight into the side of daddy's pride and joy!! We just need to redo the wicker fence (it rotted over the Winter) in front of the cottage to keep Little Prince the intrepid explorer out and the garden will be a LOT safer :-) Also my friend's son H came round and will be starting to rebuild the missing garden wall on Monday, well he will be digging new footings ready for the new wall!! There used to be a building next door to ours, and their wall formed part of our garden boundary wall, the building was demolished last Summer and there is no sign of the promised development of the plot!! I have had enough of living with the ugly metal site-fencing, and having my lovely walled garden open to all and sundry to peer in - so H is going to build us a wall :-) If we get him to build it to 1.8m high we don't need planning permission or anything, so that's what we are going to do. I found a local reclamation yard that should be able to supply reclaimed bricks that will be in keeping with the feel of the house and can't wait to have my lovely private walled garden back. Apparently H is a slow but meticulous builder, and that is exactly what I want - a wall that will last and look good for a few hundred years or so :-)