The House that Paul Built

 A couple of weeks back I was installing the concrete base for a new green house. This base is approximately 3.5m but 2.5m but 10 cm at the thinnest but about 30 cm at the thickest (to allow for the slope) the nearest level place I could put the concrete mixer was about 20 - 30 meters away from the site of the green house. this meant that all the liquid concrete had to be carried in buckets 20 meters and up 35 steps ~ by me.    By the end of the day I was totally shattered and quite glad of my visit to the osteopath.    This is the first time I have had to do a job like this and I was hoping that I had done it right, as I also had to build the greenhouse.  

Well I have now more or less completed the greenhouse as well. This is the first time I have built a green house so I didn't know how long it would take, or quite how complicated it would be.

 

Of course it would have helped if the instructions had been printed in English, rather than something that looked like English, had all English words, but didn't make sense in any language I know. It also would have been good if the holes had been the same size and shape as the glass, I had to make a few adjustments.

Overall I am pretty pleased with the results so far, and the customer is very happy. I still have to put in the automatic vent controls ( they have to be placed in a fridge for half an hour before being fitted) and there are a couple of things, like a replacement for the pane of glass that got broken, I am waiting for before I can really be finished.

Now I am feeling very tired, with a lot of aches and pains from lifting, stretching and getting into some pretty odd angles, so I am looking forward to another session with the osteopath tomorrow, I am definitely in need of the the ministrations.