50m3 of soil to dig out on day 1. Steel superstructure up days 2 and 3. Those were the easy bits. @the_team_landscapers took on the excruciatingly slow process of cladding both in @loknanul timber and metal around & over works by @scottpag1984, jmadden395 & corythomas96. @m.a.d.landscapes paved the lower floor whilst @mark.fairgireve (AKA ‘Sams Dad’) and @samboy13 created (in their words) ‘brick porn’ with glazed white @ibstockbrick sawtooths and the most expensive sand I have ever bought. Glass taxed everyone’s brains and the staircase arrived wrong. The days slipped by and the weather was horrid. The only plus side was that the huge green walls we had created and planted ourselves were looking fabulous (recently reimagined by @stonedarragh as a fetching hat for @alzsocirl which I take as a monumental compliment). The days were long. I don’t even think we went to the pub once and there was a moment when morale dropped beyond low but the literal flick of a switch changed that instantly. The cottage industry in the weeks before build up had been creating a light transmitting terrazzo. We didn’t know if it would work but it did and just seeing it twinkling away gave us all the boost we needed to get the garden finished. It was close though. Very close. We called in the help of the big guns @henrikksongabbi @fishertomlin @landscape.show @tishpot25 @colinkgg all came to tweak, polish and preen and @michaelspellersculpture lent us a beautiful piece that was wrapped so thoroughly I apparently conducted a four letter tirade at it for several minutes just before judging. Although I have absolutely no memory of this at all. .
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