New Patio

It has been a while though in between putting out my back and being bed bound for 2 days, work and doing loads of work on the house you can finally see some pictures showing that our work is starting to bear fruit. Our patio pergola/awning was finally erected yesterday. This is after about a month of back breaking work lifting bricks, re-shaping the area and throwing a new slab-all this work done by yours truly with loads of help from Sar's Dad and Mom. Finally yesterdaay the awning went up so phase 1 is complete. Phase 2 is the tiling of the area though I am planning on having a few weekends off before that takes place. here are the results:


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