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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
…don’t stop digging!
I’m just wondering how many more cheesy ‘digging’ titles we can come up with. Oh, I can think of a few!
Here are a few more digging shots anyway, just to prove we’re Ali is doing something:
I’ve just been out there with pen, pad, pacing feet and [...]
“No.. keep digging!”
Tee hee.
Well, we’re this far in now:
and already I’m wondering whether it’s in the right place. “Is it wise to build so close to the path?” “What if the baby falls off the edge? We’ll need to fence it..” and “When you take into account the [straw bale] thickness [...]
OK, it wasn’t all that deep, and as Al said: “It doesn’t even really count as a cut, in ground like this,” but it happened anyway, yesterday on the vernal equinox. And actually, from that point where he put the spade in for the pic, we need to dig down a further six feet, or [...]
Best thing a computer-addicted son could say to his mother, when she’s worrying about how to power his new off-grid house (heard yesterday):
“It’s ok. I’ll just read books.”
Bless! He would, as well. For a while.. then, when the novelty wore off, he’d want his old bedroom in the original house here keeping as a computer [...]
This is a heap of stones which has been dumped, over the years, on the banking where Ali’s house will be:
You can’t even see most of them, actually. As the years pass, the ground grows over the top of them and they get buried in the soil. Nature is amazing really, isn’t she?
Anyway, [...]
Some days, it’s actually very difficult to go out there and work, when it’s cold, windy, wet, and staying in the kitchen by a roaring fire is so much more tempting. Today was one of those days.
“Just one barrow,” I say to myself, on such occasions.
One barrow of wood from the demolished shed:
[...]
– and actually, the more things take shape, the more I realise its importance. I think that little willow tree is going to form the centre point for the expanse of green grass that will eventually (by next springtime I hope!) cover the first third of our field and surround the first two buildings. [...]
