Our treasured lockdown project

Alistair Michaels of Cape Town writes My wife Ruth and I are avid fans of your magazine, and every month it’s a tussle to see who gets to read it first.

When lockdown started last year, we embarked on a fire pit project in our back garden. We started off by using some leftover building blocks and a broken-down garden wall, a huge cost saving as we only had to buy cement, sand and stone. But then we ran out of supplies because hardware stores weren’t open – and our seating was only built halfway. By the time we were able to buy more supplies, the Cape winter had arrived, and we returned to work. We tried to continue with our fire pit over weekends, but it rained continuously! We eventually completed everything at the end of September, but we value the time and effort we spent on our project because we did it by ourselves.

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