Looking after ourselves
Love vintage storage @JB70 such as these looks, but admit I am not fond of open storage and prefer things behind glass/other doors to save on dusting. Custom made shelving such as they have done for the old suitcases so that storage boxes/items are readily accesible to my mind is also a must. Moving things to get to things = 
Spent part of this afternoon re-stacking the brick plinths I'd built up for the plant stands. When I set them up, everything was a bit on the wobbly side. I didn't want the extra work, but I realised that if I didn't even things up, I'd be causing myself ongoing problems. 
The cause of the wobbliness is that the Victorian bricks are uneven in size, and also 4-bricks-wide was just a fraction on the skinny side for the bases of the plant stands. So I put the plants and stands aside, removed a double row of Victorian bricks from under the spots where the legs would go, restacked 2x5x3 high with modern bricks in those spots, and put the Victorian bricks 4-wide in between, where evenness isn't critical. I even got out a hammer to knock off some bits of mortar, and the spirit level to make sure they really were level.
It's looking a lot better now. I need to do one more 5x2 stack for one more plant stand, then I can fill the stands. Next steps after that will be filling in the path next to them, and rigging up a star picket+bedhead gate. Sort of like this, but the one I'm using is a fancy one with an arched top and a green finish. 🙂
