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Where the brown/tan coloured stuff is a current and permanent fixture (aircon and hot water service RIGHT in the bloody middle, go figure) and each square is half a metre.

The current tank is going because it's tiny, in the way, and old enough that the inside is rusty and leaves residue in the water that comes out of it. New tank I'm going to have to research more in terms of volume. Colin and Laura are building and will be having a rainwater tank (which I think is mandatory on new builds now, probably with some exceptions?) but the builders aren't allowed to plumb it into the house, except the toilet. That's it. Cos. Rainwater is bad for you? =| Yeah. I need to find out if that's just a thing you're not allowed to do at all anymore, which is STUPID beyond comprehension, or if it's just their builders being thingie. I mean, if all I can use it for is watering the garden and getting a glass of water out of it every now and then it's kinda pointless having anything massive. If I can use it for doing the washing and showering in, though, then 1100L mightn't be enough. We'll see.

Washing line is currently outside my studio window (the one on the right) but it's just bolted onto these railing things so I can remove it and shove it down under the veranda and hence not have my clothes rained on. Then there's fixing up those railing things which are SO precarious it's almost scary.

Then pull up the old pavers, remove the concrete that goes all the way along and about a metre from the house (I don't even know where to start on that. Hire a Hubby maybe) and the scoria AND THEN. THEN I CAN FINALLY PUT NEW THINGS IN.

Under the veranda (you can see where I've marked the edge of it there) I've got down cream-coloured pavers 40cm square with black pebbles between them, then down the other end, outside the studio window, is moss! Which looks to take about two years to establish so the furniture wouldn't be coming in for a while yet. Probably not such a bad thing. Force me to not spend money 8D;;; But yeah. MOSS. Once established you only water it when it hasn't rained in, like, three weeks. No mowing or whipper-snippering required. Hugely weed-resistant. Grows in relative shade, which this ground gets, being a narrow patch between house and fence.

Furniture is just rough-as-guts sizing estimates to see that things fit, won't be looking for years yet.

SO ground cover sorted, methinks. Actual plants I can plan once all the heavy lifting is done. And there's a LOT of heavy lifting. Ugh.