Trees!!

As part of the ridiculous planning rules from RDC we have to show a 'deliniation' of the garden to the wild meadow! Well following the efforts of Mr R here they are:- These are apple and plum trees - we know there's only a small number yet but its work in progress and depends entirely on finances!

Part 2 of Tannery Trail

Well we are becoming familiar with shovelling etc. following part 1 of Tannery Trail. Yet again a number of hours and the moving of tons of earth, hardcore and cobbles has resulted in the final part of the trail being completed.

Next stop a rockery! This was Mrs R's bright idea as she thought it looked unsightly at the start of the trail. We visited a garden centre in town and following much scrtching of heads and discussions with any 'garden expert' we could find we purchased a few sets of rockery plants (for the life of me I can't actually remeber their names!!) Anyhow here it is being looked after by Mr Frog (another one of Mrs R's ideas!!!

The Start of Tannery Trail

So as we have moved the small shed we need to get a path to it and then continue that to the bigger shed (when we eventually move it!!) We started the digging and shovelling and clearing of earth at 1000hrs and 5hours later we had made this:-

This is the start of Tannery Trail! Blinking hard work!

Phase 1 shed moving...!

So we have begun to make the paddock look like a garden. First things first is we need to move the sheds off the drive and we have changed our minds on having a big bit of hard standing. We have decided to have a pebble path leading from the drive to both sheds. Easy peasy I hear you shout! Well not really! Mr R decided to read up on 'how to make the best path' and then went ahead ordering hardcore, pebbles, concrete slabs and bits of planking from Jewsons! As all of this was delivered by crane in 1 ton bags our drive resembles a building site!!

Anyway we set about digging the part for the first smaller shed - many hours later Mr R proudly showed off his 4x3 square section of concrete slabs and then decided to try to move the shed!

This was so heavy it was unreal but we cleverly overcame and adapted and by using old circular fence posts we managed to roll the shed to the appropriate place! It fitted perfectly but had taken virtually the whole day! God knows what we will have to do for the bigger shed and path.