We’ve had a kind of patio in the back garden for years now, calling it a patio is overstating it though. I would just call it a paved area. The stones were all uneven – it was a cladding from a bank. I know, that doesn’t make too much sense but it is true. It was fine up to a point – very difficult to put a table and chairs there, unsafe to have glasses and plates etc. All that is in the past.

All we need now is warm sunny days – oh, and a suitable table and a few chairs. All this is the result of the hard work of our friend Si Troka. We managed to choose the worst possible weather for doing this work but there was nothing stopping him.