Yorkstone
Posted by mattc at Sep 8, 07 10:48 AM ... Comments (0)
We needed a few flagstones to lead across the border to the food composter.
I never really noticed the Woodlands Farm Reclaimation Yard when living in Guildford, but it seemed worth a trip. It's huge, full of 100's of crates of second-hand stones, edging, rockery, lumps of concrete all precariously balanced, waiting for your tremors to gently nudge 1/2 a tonne of granite on to your flip-flop protected foot. We spent a happy couple of hours wandering around, dusting off old stones, inhaling the dust etc.
Having realised our favourite was far to expensive for something that's just going to be stuck in the ground and be mostly covered by foliage for most of the year the guy in the hut pointed us at a small batch of 30cm x 30cm Yorkstone flags.
The sand-coloured streaks look great in direct sunlight and even better when wet, like high-resolution photo's of Saturn's rings.
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