Park Bench 2018
Why
When it was winter, I thought the field could use another council style bench, and since it only has a few trees, I thought next to a couple it does have would be nice.
When
July 2018
Where
On the field opposite my house.
The top bench is the 2018 bench made from scratch.
The lower bench is a council one that I refurbished in memory of my dad.
Materials / Media
Concrete, Paving slabs, wood-stain, Timber, nuts, bolts, paint, pebbles.
Production
The area had to be cleared with some Wellie-Landscaping (stomping and kicking) and then strimmed and also dug out a fair bit as well. I also had to do most of this when people weren’t around to avoid questions or bother (like at night or during England World Cup football games). The bench needed concrete forms which required a frame to form them from, and then all the wood parts needed staining and sorting with fittings drilled out to be bolted in etc.
Execution
The paving slabs were extra thick buggers and I had to move them over in the dead of night in a brown wheelie bin, one by one. And the heavy concrete forms had to be painted and carried over by hand. Some of it was done during the day as the World Cup was on. No-one was out at all because they were watching football. I couldn’t give a tinker’s tit for football, even if England were playing.
Notes
I was going to put a confusing or funny plaque on it but I never thought of anything or got round to it. I also considered doing a weird memorial plaque to myself despite not being dead yet. I’ve been calling this my “Community Service”. Except it’s self funded and I haven’t done anything wrong or been ordered to of course. I’ve probably spent longer doing it that some people on community service too, and with much greater effort. (I wonder if I can use that as credit if I do something bad.)
