All Charged Up

As everyone has declined to put fingers to keyboard today it's "Digger David" doing a guest spot. The day started with a final push, or pull, to get the stump out of the "garage". With the help of the digger we found the offending roots and out it came. We had no sooner finished and Cyril the builder made his entrance. This long awaited event was greeted with great joy and a belief that at last things were on the move. We showed him our work on the stump but he did not seem overly impressed. Whilst John went off to talk building work with Cyril I was let loose on the digger. A childhood dream was fulfilled as I moved earth around with aplomb. Cyril brought a couple of bigger diggers to rearrange the earth in the caves and so got started. It was all happening on the building front as the roof tiles arrived. Sue looked mournfully at the front lawn as the lorry trundled across the grass to find a spot to deposit the pallets of tiles. Why can't builders do their work without making a mess cos someone has to clear up after them!! They do have their benefits as Cyril showed his skill with the digger by moving the tree, which John and I couldn't move, then transported a number of huge flagstones from the cave to a site by the ruin. With all this work going on the ladies felt it necessary to get in on the act so Betty and June set about moving a pile of rocks from the back of the barn to a rockery under the oak trees. But Digger David carried on regardless moving earth from one spot to another. The working day finally came to end and we marked the occasion with a bottle of bubbly. And so to bed.