I don't have a big garden - 4m wide by roughly 5m long, and the previous owner, a single man like me, wasn't a gardening fan, also like me So he made it low maintenence and just basicially threw shingle down all over it, leaving a couple flower beds along the sides with a bush, and two connifers.

I fucking hate shingle I like to come out barefoot, and thats not comfortable on shingle. Fucking stuff gets dragged into the house. Fucking hate it.

So since I had a couple days off, I did this;



50 slabs later (well 48 cos I need to cut two to fit round the drainpipes), 4 bags of sand and 4hrs sweating like a pedophile in a playground I have this;



4m x 2m almost level patio I wasn't going at it full on proper, with hardcore and cement etc - just leveled out the soil best as poss, laid down some anti weed matting, covered in sand and malleted them in as close to flat as poss. Some are a little wobbly, and there is height descrepency on quite a few (most ) but fuck it, cost me £80 all in for the slabs and sand and I've never done any of this type of stuff before, so I'm quite chuffed with myself