But could J. M. Barrie make concrete that sets?
on Apr 07 in Uncategorized by Dan
The term Wendy Houses originates from the book Peter Pan. Wendy kept house for Peter and the lost boys and so the name was born. Knowing this kind of useless information is all very well, but it doesn’t help you build one of the damned things. My list of Things to Do in the garden has grown even longer with this morning’s delivery of one of Walton Garden Building’s fine Daisy Dens. Not only does this mean I’m going to have to lay a concrete base (which in itself may be beyond my DIY capabilities – the concrete I used to mortar in my steps two days ago still hasn’t set), but I’m also going to have to level the ground, buy a load of topsoil and drag it up the hill in buckets, and sow a new lawn. I’m hoping that I can convince my dad to give me a hand actually erecting the house, as any attempt to do it on my own would very likely turn into a Laurel and Hardy skit.
I apologise that this blog has started to turn into a cut price Ground Force, but the garden looms large in my consciousness at the moment. I’ve got five days off coming up soon and I’m planning on spending at least a couple of them in the garden. That’s if the concrete on the steps dries and I can actually get in.
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- Can we build it?
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- Tree watch, week two.
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What a wonderful play house! Your daughter is a lucky little girl.
And it’ll come in handy as a place to hide from her little sister or brother when they turn 2, take it from me.
Thanks. Amy keeps pointing to the pile of lumber in the garden and saying “We build it now yes”. I made the mistake of telling her that we’d build it when the sun was shining (it was raining at the time). Now every time she see’s the sun she says “we build wendy house?”
She doesn’t see m to grasp the reply “no, not now, Daddy’s too lazy”.