Stargazer4moon's blog: "It depends on what occurs on the way."

Today is fine and sunny but with a biting wind that makes it feel colder than Iceland. I say that because that is just what I was told yesterday by a man who had been there last week. The garden is drying with the winds so it is a relief to have it because the back garden never sees the sun until summer comes. That seems a long way off and I need to make the raised bed around the new garage walkable. It is currently a very mucky clay ridden bed with some plants in that must remain or the soil will shift and so will the raft that the garage is now sitting on. The wall surround the raised bed is not the safest of things but I am told that it is going nowhere so leave it be. There is a lot of rubble remaining from the broken base of the old garage so I thought that if I broke it into tiny pieces I could put it onto a piece of the raised garden that was once covered with a 1ft square paving slab rather than trying to re-lay it onto very rough ground due the it being walked on and concreted in part. The thing is I need something to smash the stones up in so they don't shatter everywhere and the only box I have is a plastic recycling box that would probably crack upon impact from a lump hammer! Perhaps I can find a very thick rubble bag and smash that with the rubble in. +++ Good job I did some weight lifting this morning! I did that so that I could pull the garage door down a little easier than with cold muscles as the spring on the door is very stiff and I never really use that group of muscles. This meant figuring out which ones are used then devising an exercise that actually used them with dumbells in hand!