It’s going to be stone. Eventually.

We made a decision on the wall – well, Ali did. It’s going to be stone, not breeze block. He’s got enough stone, and he likes working with it, so that’s the plan.
He dug down to make space for its foundations, and to everyone’s surprise (though perhaps we should have expected it, there being [...]

The digging is nearly finished now

And I have, wearily, run out of hole puns so I’ll just show you a picture of where we’re at:

Ali has done 95% of the work: he goes out there every day to do some. I am very pleased that I haven’t had to do it myself and have been able to concentrate on the [...]

“There I was, a-digging this hole..

(Courtesy of Bernard Cribbens [opens YouTube])
“Hole in the ground, so big and sort of round it was
And there was I, digging it deep
It was flat at at the bottom and the sides were steep
When along comes this bloke in a bowler which he lifted and scratched his head
Well he looked down the hole, poor demented [...]

The hole truth

Feel free to just groan unreservedly at the current post titles. I am, and I’m writing them.
Anyway, the hole: it groweth, thus:

– and is becoming quite the family obsession I was hoping it would:

– which is good, because it needs to go down by at least another 2 feet, still, and obviously [...]