To get the patio done there are all sorts of steps that we didn't initially think of - get electricity to the back of the garden (so we can have a pond at some future point) and get a pergola up (to give the garden some shape) - we got used to having one in the last house and I bought a wisteria for this a year ago (everything in the right order! and the final (house half of the garden) will be going a new 'L-shaped' patio (February?). Then that's probably about it for the next 5 years (until we have recovered from the baby!).

...and this is the final bit of stage 1!