Penniedarling

 Road base being swept out of David's van.

 Relaying of bricks underway... but it's getting late, so...


 Next morning straight back onto relaying the bricks.


All neatly finished and no longer a danger of tripping visitors up!  Brilliant job David and Niall  :-)

Now all this excitement got me racing upstairs to search through old photos, then of course I had to scan them and run outside once again with photos in hand to take more recent shots.

These photos were taken 31 years apart, such fun remembering and if only I had Gwilym here to pose in the same place as the first two photos  :-)

 December 1982, brick driveway has started, David laid our whole driveway by himself.
Doesn't Gwilly look sweet here, he had long blond hair because he wouldn't let me cut it or anyone else for that matter... anyway he looked so sweet :-)   And our old swings on the right of this photo, great use of old car tyres.

 Getting a photo taken in the same place is a bit tricky now but I think this is correct, can't see much of the drive here though.


 Gosh things have changed a lot since this photo was taken...  look at all those bikes on the veranda.


 That's the Big Green Bus under restoration in the garage and my old Volvo and the old London and South West Railway sign.

 The Big Green Bus has gone to the Bus Museum to join his mate the Big Red Bus.     Different cars and the Beware of Trains signs is now Red!  David tells me this is the colour it should be.


 This is the first driveway that David laid to the old house... and look at all those bricks on the right all waiting to be laid!

31 years later and this is the first time we've needed to do repairs on this beautiful old driveway, there are more dips and bumps and so on but that one at the very entrance I'd tripped over twice already and we didn't want one of you tripping over it when you visited now did we!!

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