A good sign of success is that there was a queue for the shower yesterday, so muddy and wet were we all from a day of digging, smashing, lugging and bashing. Although today was a quieter affair, we still got loads done and the garden is starting to shape up! There is much work still to be done, but making all this progress is a great start.
I'm going to spare you my usual lengthy narrative, and thanks to Toby's mad camera skills, resort to spamming you with pictures instead!
But before that, a list of acknowledgements seems appropriate, since we received so much help (sorry if I forget anyone). Thank you to Heather, Lis and Julia for the loan of tools, it made everything so much easier, and thank you to Todd, Toby and Ryan for doing masses of work. Ryan didn't even know there was a work weekend, he was just visiting for his birthday. He got stuck in nevertheless. What a legend. Thanks to Toby for taking pictures or we wouldn't have a record of all the frenzied activity. And thanks to Finn, for doing more digging today than you would imagine a 2 year old would be up for, and managing to do it in an actually useful fashion. Between that and his tendency to shout "grow more plants! grow more seeds!" I have high hopes for his future.
On to the pictures!
Day One
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| There was a breeze block wall on top of this stone one only hours before. |
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| That's some of it in a heap centre-left, next to all our sexy recycled paving materials! |
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| Lifting concrete to make a home for the compost bins. |
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| Flick is a professional digger, and she found a clay pipe stem! |
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| Knocking down the wall revealed next door's rubbish heap - which Toby promptly sorted and bagged for recycling :) |
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| Victorian flagstones under the concrete show how much the ground level has risen. |
Day Two
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| Start of day two: so much ground to level! |
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| Marking out the edge of the patio so we can start not standing on the beds. |
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| It's a family affair :D |
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| Finn asked Toby to take this picture. Quite right too. |
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| The future shed floor is now levelled! |
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| A nice tidy garden, with newly housed compost bins! |
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| Cleaned tools at the end of the day. Woop! |
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| Our newest treasure - a buried shopping trolley! |
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How did anybody ever manage to push a shopping trolley up that hill in the first place?
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DeleteOh my goodness it looks incredible I am too excited to use punctuation
ReplyDeleteHi Golems, great to see what you've achieved, with a little help form your friends... Just checked you out on RR and I think you need to update your entry!
ReplyDeleteWho's going to spring Gathering in Cornwall? Any chance of a lift share?
I'm not sure I'd know where to find out entry, but I'll have a look! I know we have one person going to the gathering, but he'll be on the train. I would be going (and taking a car) but it's the last weekend of my permaculture course.
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