They’ve covered half the fucking garden in decking. Alban has developed a certain low-level hatred of decking. It’s become all the rage, it’s the flavour of the last few years, it’s what you do to bring the outside in or the inside out or create a roofless room or however the hell you want to express it, but he just finds it annoying. He shouldn’t hate it the way he does because it has its place; it effectively extends the house or flat it’s attached to, it’s a lot easier to build decking up to the same level as an internal floor than it is having to cart in tons of earth and hardcore to support a stone or brick patio, plus it fits in with people’s modern, money-rich, time-poor lifestyle blah blah blah, reducing the amount of actual garden that you have to deal with - all that messy soil and ground and such - and letting you get away with a few artfully placed plant pots . . . but he still hates the fucking stuff. He hates it because everybody’s doing it, thoughtlessly.
What do You think about The Steep Approach To Garbadale?
