A Happy Gardener

Another day hard at it. And another lovely day for working outside with temperatures in the teens. Sue spent the day starting to lay out the design for the front garden; needless to say, she enjoyed herself.

The assistant gardener was also busy helping and supervising. Both the cats love it when we are working outside and they can be poking about with us.

Unfortunately, the weather forecast shows rain off and on for the next 9 days, which is a shame, as Sue wants me out on the digger. We are both keen to start excavating the first path so that we can see just how much soil we have under the grass. We fear that it is quite shallow and we will be moving quite a bit of rock.

Meanwhile, the prisoner was still on hard labour. I spent a second day digging out the 'rubbish tip' behind the ruin. We are seeing some progress and it will be a shame if we do get a lot of rain.