We looked to make a start on the garden works this week as the plans had now been confirmed.  While we waited for the materials delivery to turn up on the Wednesday me and Dane started on the kitchen, utility and store room splash back tiling.  While Dane finished off the tiling on Tuesday, I set about hanging three new internal doors and putting on all the associated door furniture.  On Wednesday we had a new skip delivered and we made a start on the back garden by rotavating it and removing the earth where the patio area was going to go, which involved barrowing lots of earth round into the new skip.  Once that was done our next job was to hardcore the patio and paving areas.  This involved shoveling and barrowing eight tonnes of hardcore into the back garden, and we enjoyed immensley every tonne we moved!  On Friday we made a start on laying the 28 sq metres of 1100 x 560 paving slabs.  They were that large that it was a two man job to lay them and by the end of the day my back certainly knew it had done a hards days work.