The Independent - London, July 12th, 1997
"The patio" is a term used by estate agents to describe any collection of paving stones that is loosely attached to a house. Builders like patios because they give an illusion of order to a new house. They push all the muck they should never be leaving behind into a raft around the back door and then drop concrete slabs on top of it as they retreat backwards off the site - usually for ever. Gradually the forces of gravity try to make sense of the plastic sacks, copies of The Sun, solidified cement powder, off-cuts of rafters and fossilised sandwiches. The patio begins to heave like the sea in...
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