La Puce wrote:


Interesting front drive with the paving ... and really beautiful
garden. I wish you as much creativity with your new garden. Manchester
is a great place to live - I know, I've been here 26 years but it all
depends where you are. I live in Whalley Range and wouldn't live
anywhere else or perhaps a couple other place. We're hunting for some
land now to built upon and this is proving difficult. But we're one
hour from sea, mountains, lakes, moors ... there's no better place
really.


The paving on the front drive came about when we bought a new caravan.
It was too heavy for us to move on the gravel, but rather than concrete
a large area we decided just to concrete the bits that the caravan
wheels moved on. This we did and it has produced quite by chance a
piece of abstract art (that is probably taking it a bit far). It is
certainly a talking point. We often wonder what passing helicopters
think.

Best of luck with your building project. I imagine a plot of land of
any size is very expensive in Manchester. We have found that house
prices are about twice what they are on this side of the country.

Thanks for your good wishes.

All the best,

Chris