72 more paving slabs

That’s how many I loaded into my trailer at Brico Depot this morning. It was almost their whole stock at that branch and I would have taken the rest also except I was a bit concerned about overloading the trailer. Then I carefully drove home stopping at the little Carrefour in Rouffignac to buy a ‘baguette de campagne’ for lunch.

After a brief rest to recover from the morning’s exertions I then unloaded them all again in a temperature of 27 degrees Celsius and laid them out on the terrace area at the rear of my house. But it was all worth it because at the end I was able to move my small round table, four chairs and the little parasol up from the ‘tonnelle’ at the bottom of my land near the caravan and after cleaning them I’d created a sweet little seating area

The area is only large enough for the small round table at present but it’ll take four people which’ll do for now. Ideally I want to be able to move up my large table and the rest of the chairs but that’ll need more paving slabs. There aren’t enough now at Trelissac but I’ve just checked the stock at Brive and they have over 400 available.

I’ve left the trailer hooked up to my car and I think I’ll drop over there tomorrow and pick up another 50 or 60 which I’ll lay while the weather is good. After all, I can do the work inside the house any time but it’ll be impossible to do much outside once the weather breaks and I really do want to get the two ‘tonnelles’ emptied while the going is good.