There is work going on here – though not very interesting or blogworthy at the moment. Just sheer hard graft. We’re shaping the land near the entrance to the field – there are/were some huge mounds of stone, brick, hardcore and soil and we’ve been sorting and shifting them.
The aim is to convert this whole nettle and bramble patch into a smooth verdant grassy slope. Easier said than done! But I want to be able to get a vehicle down it, (assuming my neighbour will let me – negotiations are now underway..) and have the children play on it while we attend to repairing the walls and rebuilding the sheds.
The soil is being re-sited to areas that needed levelling or draining:
And the stone and bricks are being stored further up the field, ready for wall repairs and foundations to be built:
Still a lot to do though – that mound there is full of hardcore, stones and bricks which all need sorting and shifting.
Down at the bottom of the field is the plant mound we’ve made in the last few weeks:
We’ve done a massive amount of work and I’m very pleased with the progress we’re making, but this particular bit seems slow and laborious just now. And exhausting! Stones and bricks are much heavier than nettles and brambles, waily waily. Still, we’re got a lot done on the mounds so far and might even have them finished by the end of tomorrow. I’m keen to get grass seed down as soon as possible, because of course the indigenous plants are growing back almost as fast as we can clear them.
I’m reading this now:
and I think we might be ready to build a prototype very soon. Hopefully something to power the lawnmower! Though I’ve been looking at this with interest. Hmm.
