another miserable day -- for August

.... Pam's been wanting to get the pressure washer on the floor outside the house for ages and as it was already seriously wet, was ideal ....
quite remarkable how much tish gets carried here by vehicle wheels and foot fall ... usually gets done twice a year, but been a while since it last got treated

..... she loves playing with it too ... looked an OK job after she'd finished
only down side was i have to set it up and put it all away .... and tweaked my back getting the damned thing down out the black shed ... haven't done that in ages
I managed to sort an outside IP68 socket box, between the rain showers (deluges, actually), for a water pump, that turned up yesterday, for one of Pam's
'watery features' ,with an incredibly short lead

, change a couple of halogen floods, that'd mysteriously 'failed' within a couple of days of each other (got some LED units to replace them with, but just too bloody wet to go pratting about with 'em) and several downlighters in the utility, after searching out me box of spare lamps.
it did eventually dry up late afternoon and turned my attentions to a little summat I acquired a few weeks back that I have been pondering on ....
needed a little help to get it on the bench, so thought I'd enlist the 'new recruit' for some assistance ... more on this subject anon

wasn't sure he'd be up for it ...... but ........
.........little fella did well

... 's a 120kgs ... handled it fine - I've no idea what to expect, lift wise from baby jake .... only ever dug with one before
so whilst it was still dry, 'fore tea, I thought I'd christen him
and the new bucket in one hit .... and scrape off the top of me drain, round the edge of the patch, that gets the run off, off the bank, which'll hopefully decrease now that the vegetation is starting to establish itself ....

didn't take me long to stuff two barrows ..... think it's time I had a conversation with our illustrious leader,
@Regy53 , 'bout one of his Lumags ... these lil' sods're heavy and don't much fancy wheeling 'em to where they're going to have to end up

might just fill a third one and stick 'em all in a trailer, to reduce the pushing bit, by A LOT ....
Might just run the ripper tooth through the 40mm after, when I've got it all done .... loosen it back up a little
Oh ....... and I scratched the '
galvanise'

on the new bucket
and got it dirty

