Today I had two showers . . .

The first took about 4 minutes, the second 4 hours . . .
 
 
Yesterday’s final leg of Openreach installing the underground ducting for the FFB left large ‘muddy’ stains  either side of the excavation, even though the lads had swept up and washed down up to the best of their ability.  While still wet it looked reasonable, but after it had dried overnight it looked terrible, especially over the footpath.
 
 
So this morning I resolved to get the pressure washer out clean it all up.
 
 
Well as ever one thing leads to another.  The car came second, then I decided that the autumn leaves needed shifting from the front steps, along with last year’s accumulation of moss and heavens know what.   Then the algae on the front fence, and while I’m on the front fence why not the garden furniture on the patio which hasn’t been seen to since before the pandemic;   that and the wrought iron fence which I’ve avoided painting for twenty years and like everything else had accumulated a good layer of algae this wet winter.
 
 
The blip is of one of the benches half cleaned (quarter really – the backside needed cleaning too).  You can see the chair (we bought for Pauline’s mum when she was with us) behind the bench.  They don’t look like that now they have dried (a bit) but with a good application of teak oil when the sun has had a chance to dry out the wood properly they will (should) look like that again.
 
 
As you can imagine I was a trifle wet by the time I had finished all that pressure washing.  Mrs W cooking tea tonight – stir-fry prawns.  Shouldn’t take too long to do the washing up . . .