Day 8

What started off as a lazy day: late out of bed, then not working on the PP until about 2pm, soon became yet another gruelling day of backbreaking labour -- this one consisting of carting each paving stone, individually, over to the sacred area, and trying to jigsaw the damn thing together

By about 7pm, I had got so far:

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It's kinda "busy", no? Can you spot Porch (camouflaged)?:

I begin to despair: have I done the right thing? is it not too colourful? It's too much? etc. etc.

But there's no going back.

By 8.30pm, we'd achieved:

Here's a detail of the "crazy paving" which more than lives up to its name:

There's still the levelling to be done, the filling in of the cracks, the marbling of the cracks. My initial ETA was this Sunday...I don't think that's going to happen...

Oy.

Continued over.