Outdoor dining

We ate outside the other night in the wood shed area by the house that we cleared to be our 'outdoor kitchen'. It obviously isn't in it's final state at the moment, it needs a better floor and the walls sorting out and some kind of facilities but it worked well when we set off to have a bbq and a storm blew in and should be equally good for shade when it is sunny.
Doug looks a bit tired because of the hell puppy needing to go to the toilet every 3 hours or so during the night.

We have a quote on the way from the roofer for a new roof in slate to match the main house - it has rather a lot of holes at the moment and the wood supporting it is rotten. If we go ahead with that we won't need the giant pillar in the middle (doesn't look intrusive in the photo above but it actually is rather in the way)

You can see from this picture why the hedge needs trimming *slightly* (ie a lot). There is a lovely view behind the hedge...

Aidan trimmed another part of the hedge - this is the look we want here also (ie chopped completely down so just stumps remain)