Onoff Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 It wasn't ME who started this! A couple of members have been to my place and will likely agree the amount of work needed etc. After a hard 5 days last week I came home and as I pulled up in the drive could hear a digger. I walked round the back and SWMBO's first words were "Don't moan..." The house is surrounded by mismatched paths and patios in some cases patios over cracked patios! The common theme is that they either slope towards the house, are higher than the internal floor levels...or both! 😂 Really it all needs to come up. Anyway...we'd discussed extending the patio area a few weeks back. I suggested doing the opposite side of the house first so we could store various materials out of sight, sort the drains etc. It would appear that fell on deaf ears. On a whim she'd gotten her brother with his digger to, well...start digging! Various reptiles & amphibians appeared and were safely relocated. He then dislodged an old clay soil pipe along with the bees nest and got stung. The "Don't moan..." was because he'd also found the oil pipe! 😂 I did a 180 on the path and shot down to Screwfix for a few 10mm pipe couplers. Been pegging out the excavation tonight using the laser to see what levels I have. Paving slabs are coming free hopefully. Aiming for this to be as cheap as possible. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 Wish I had a brother-in-law with a digger!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twice round the block Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 While he had the digger on site he should have flat packed your greenhouse 🤭 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted June 8, 2023 Author Share Posted June 8, 2023 Got the BiL to kindly take a few inches more out of the new patio area. It exposed the old water pipe that used to feed the piggery that was adjacent years ago. Should have plenty of depth now for some hardcore now and end up with this area level with the floor inside the house. The long term plan is to lower all the paved areas around the house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 On 22/05/2023 at 10:34, twice round the block said: While he had the digger on site he should have flat packed your greenhouse 🤭 He's waiting for Nov 5th.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 (edited) Came home and saw a weird, flint sticking out of the bank where we've dug out to extend the patio: The plain side: A quick clean in the sink with the scrubbing brush: Any thoughts as to what it is? Bone? Edited July 4, 2023 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markc Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Weird! No idea at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Inside a flint 🤷♂️? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 54 minutes ago, joe90 said: Inside a flint 🤷♂️? Yep. Tbh this type of "inclusion" is pretty common to round here. My brother is good at spotting them. Came down one day and I'd unearthed a tennis ball shaped flint. He said "There's a fossil in that!" Gave it a sharp tap with a club hammer and we've a perfect sea anemone / tribolite type thing. I'll try and find it and put a photo up. This one though he has no idea. Suggested I contact the British Museum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 Note the digger had broken this one apart. Can't find the other half of the flint "shell". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Is it like pearls that grow around a grain of sand, or another object 🤷♂️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canalsiderenovation Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Am I the only one who sees a frog on the bottom part, it's body and two legs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 4, 2023 Author Share Posted July 4, 2023 Best guess is a belemnite fossil. Like an ancient squid but with an internal skeleton. I'm giving it to the girl who identified it as she's been seriously ill and thought it might cheer her up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 Every day is a school day, I didn’t know this….. Flints are concretions that grew within the sediment after its deposition by the precipitation of silica; filling burrows/cavities and enveloping the remains of marine creatures, before dehydrating and hardening into the microscopic quartz crystals which constitute flint. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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