January 9th 2008

Digging in earnest.....


If my wife thought that we had seen the last of the diggers a year ago..she was mistaken !!!


Well this one is just a baby but its surprising how much of a mess it can make especially if you wait until it starts raining!


One imagines laying a garden to be a few barrows full of soil and a few paving slabs and a couple of nice shrubs and grass seed perhaps. This one isn't a bit like that as the piccys now show.





We have well over a hundred tonnes of gravel, and concrete as a base for the paving...then the slate paving, then around 60 to 70 large 10 by 5 sleepers to place...and then some topsoil , perhaps in a couple of months we'll be ready for the plants.





Our Landscape Architects' plans were giving us some strange levels yesterday....with a patio some 500mm below the adjacent ground, so we decided to raise it all up and minimise the dig.


I won't tell her...when she comes round to inspect......(that's a funny thing)....she comes to inspect the work to check that we've adhered to her plans ........and we've changed just about everything!!!! I'll be hiding in my shed.


Still it is MY garden!!!





The rain still falls, so think of us out there in the mud!!!