Day 6048 & 6049 (25 & 26/07/2026)

It was busy weekend, with us being up early and getting ready, so we could pick my parents up and drive to Monmouth for Laura & James's wedding. After parking, we walked to the venue and bumped into Laura in the town. 

With Gary DJ'ing. 

Mum & Dad enjoyed themselves. 

We had a silly (& not very accurate) caricature. 

It was a really lovely Wedding, everyone seemed to enjoy it, and we stayed till quite late, before driving my Mum & Dad home.

On Sunday we all has a bit of a lay-in, then I did some shopping, before Lee & Tim came to visit on the way home, for a pre-Birthday get together & meal. 

Day 6047 (24/07/2026)

Another early start, with some sand being delivered for the patio stuff being done. It was another quite  messy and noisy morning but thankfully a bit quieter in the afternoon, when they started laying the slabs.

I used up a leftover margarita pizza for lunch, adding some tuna, red onion and jalapeños.  

It was quite tasty, and probably would have gone to waste if we hadn't used it today.  

Then we had a few chores in town, before coming back and doing a bit more tidying & work.  I made fish & chips in the evening.

Day 6046 (23/07/2026)

It was an early start to the day, as the man cam to dig up the patio slabs and to start to relay them but I think the job was a bit bigger than he had anticipated, and it is likely to have gone from a 3 day job, to a potentially 5 or 6 day job. 

It was also a much noisier & messier job, than I had anticipated.  

But he was slowly getting to grips with it. 

I had two jobs come in, which were fun and i managed to get a reasonable result for them both. 

We had some nice pasta in the evening. 

Day 6045 (22/07/2026)

An early-ish sort of the day, as the man was here to clean the slabs, which came up very nice. 

And after they had dried. 

Then in the afternoon I went off to the gym.

In the evening we had some nice jacket potatoes with the leftover bolognaise. 

Day 6044 (21/07/2026)

I was up early as I had a few things to do in the morning, having a call about leasing an EV, then had someone round to quote for putting in an car charger. 

Then after lunch, we moved al the plants and stuff off of the patio slabs, as they are being cleaned, dug up and then relayed this week. 

Then to work, monitoring another event online, until quite late.