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<p class="has-drop-cap">I've been very busy over the past couple of weeks, too busy to update the blog so I apologise in advance for the length of this post.</p>
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<p>I spent a very pleasant few days with a friend in Blakeney at the Blakeney Hotel. She wishes to remain anonymous because either she works for MI5 or she is wanted by the police for defrauding widowers (joke!).</p>
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<p>The weather wasn't brilliant and we walked the coast wearing winter coats although we did watch a man walk down a stony beach and dive into the North Sea with 2 metre waves. Some people are crazy. We stopped off in Kings Lynn and explored the town. We ate lunch on the quay.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">On our return from Blakeney we started to demolish a raised bed where the sleepers had rotted through and kept falling apart despite my best efforts to bolt them together. The WoodBlocx kit arrived on a pallet and it didn't look as though there was enough to replace the old bed. We had to dig out a tonne of soil so we could work around the edges.</p>
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<p>Setting the levels was key to making sure the blocks fitted together and the whole thing was level and square. After several days of hard work we put the final capping layer on and I'm really pleased with the outcome.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">The build wasn't without incident. On day one, towards the end of the day when I was quite tired I managed to smash my thumb with a 2lb lump hammer. Needless to say it hurt. It has broken the nail along the cuticle and no doubt the nail will drop off at some point. After initially dressing it I went to the local surgery the next day where a nurse redressed it with an iodine gauze. It was dressed again by a nurse a few days later. It only hurts when I knock the end of the thumb but otherwise not too bad.</p>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">We went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park as a day off from gardening and raised beds. There's always something of interest to see. Despite temperatures of 27 degrees C we walked the estate and sat in the shade having a picnic lunch. A good day!</p>
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