sarah's SPACE LOG

15 May

Sarah Eberle

Waiting on paving

Our extraordinary paving didn't arrive over the weekend and I was starting to feel a little wobbly.  We were worried about having time to point the paving properly and then planting thereafter.

But suddenly it showed and from there it all seemed to pan out in the end.  It took all of yesterday and half of today to complete, but now it actually feels like it is coming together.

I've got to be honest, the paving was always one of my fears, as long ago as eight weeks.  But my real worry then was bits cracking off and slabs breaking - and we only had one spare of each of the 14 different types.

There was a hysterical few hours I spent a month ago selecting the best of each of the slabs in a Bradstone quarry at Croft in Leicestershire, trying to fathom out which of the 14 different ones we were standing on.

Each of the 40 or 50 slabs has arrived intact and in order and the team has done an amazing job piecing the jigsaw together.