After spending the summer in Tasmania, we return to the house at the end of March. In our absence the deck has been built, and beautifully stained by our house-sitters.
We spend a very busy week getting the garden into some kind of shape, buying deck furniture, which includes a flat-pack storage bench which, after erection, not only provides a very comfortable seat but also a place to keep the Weber and gas bottle which we cooked on all through the renos last year.
Here's Peter sitting on it, with coffee and newspaper.