Building a wall (noob)
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No I did not get it, I would have had to use two hands to lift it when it was empty. I thought I have seen one in store called In-Excess, a bankruptcy clearing place. Might have been wrong though. 
Frank
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You'll find the mortar easiest to work if it's like chocolate mousse - if you draw your finger through it and the groove you made stays there then it's about right. Noobs always add far too much water because they look at the mix in the first few minutes and it looks dry, kinda like the topping in an apple crumble, with large clumps that roll around loosely and they go and add more water. Like prince says, leave it, leave it, and leave it some more. The plasticiser will work its magic and eventually it becomes light and fluffy. You can tell if you added too much water when you trundle it round in the wheel barrow. If it sorta slides and settles, like wet sand would if you pummelled it, then it's too wet and it'll be a pig to work
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