Accomplished day

  Managed to get quite a bit done today and it is not even 4pm. Got up and attacked the big purple bush out in front of the house I've shown a picture of before on this blog. We managed to rip it down very quickly (like in 30 seconds). However stuffing it in to the garden waste bin (which we filled), the normal rubbish bin (which we didn't quite fill) and the back of the car with the seats down (which we did fill) we got it cleared away in the end. One quick trip to the rubbish tip and you wouldn't even know the bush was there (other than the little bits of debris left and the slightly mucky pillar we couldn't quite scrub clean).

  What was all that in aid of you ask? Why to put a different plant there of course. Trying to grow a plant my wife really likes instead, a wisteria. Hopefully it comes out the right colour since it isn't budding in the right colour at the moment.

  Then to the important and longest part of my achievements today. I managed to build a complete 1204 piece Lego set of the space shuttle. It took a little bit of organising at first which my wife helped with since when the set arrived the other day I simply opened up all 17 bags of pieces and emptied them in to the same box :-) . It took all afternoon but I got it completed and luckily the one piece I was missing (well they put the wrong colour of that piece in the box) was on the outside so I can fix it later. Here are a few pictures of the end result.

  My wife was very patient with me as I did all this. She sorted out blocks, found ones I couldn't find and hoarded other blocks to play with herself as I built it :-) . I'm pleased with the end result although I did it faster than I thought I would. The end result is damn good and quite large to say the least.

  Now I just need to do the other small set my wife got me that turned up today. Yes more Lego is in my future.