After several false starts the landscaping finally began in July 2021. The contractor came the day after we came back from our family holiday in Cornwall.
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Hooray! After 6 weeks of chaos the contractors have gone and the hard landscaping is done. We were told the job would take one week so we are a little cross that it has dragged on so long and it has been hard having a mud pile for a garden while the children have been off school for the summer holidays. 
We were supposed to have the job done for one week in May which would have allowed us to enjoy the garden this summer. COVID caused problems with getting materials and pushed all the timescales back several times.
The summer is over here now so we won't get much use out of the garden or be able to plant it up until next year but I'm really happy with how it looks and I'm already mentally arranging the plants I haven't yet bought 
I'm happy that the diagonal design and height from the pergola deceive the eye into thinking the garden is bigger than it is. We no longer feel hemmed in and the pergola distracts the eye from the neighbouring windows which makes us focus in the garden and somehow makes it feel cosier. When he got home from school my eldest son asked if the garden had got bigger! 
We laughed and said yes, we moved all the fences when the neighbours weren't looking!
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