June Weather.
I don’t know what it was like where you are, but it rained cats ‘n dogs here in Leicestershire yesterday! One minute we were having a bbq in the garden, and and next running like maniacs to get into some shelter! The rain came down for about an hour, and caused a few floods on the roads. Typical English summer I suppose!!
Happily it’s not raining this morning, so we’re all out side carving our various jobs. It’s mainly stone fireplaces this week, and one particular stone fireplace, for a returning customer, is coming along very nicely. We’ve used our distressed stone, and have ‘bashed’ it up a bit to make it look old. It’s worked very well, and he’s delighted with how it looks.
We’ve got another big load of stone arriving next week. Some samples from a different quarry too, so we can experiment with them. Some of it is specifically for stone fireplaces, but we have also found another harder stone, that is very beautiful, and will be perfect for hard wearing external stone staircase, and stone stairs.