Waller

The wall-er was hard at it early this morning and had finished the first wall before I emerged. Initially my job was to fill in rubble behind the new wall. I certainly missed my assistant June. John then started on the next wall. We've decided that it's going to be easier to build another wall infront of the existing onel between the courtyard and the top level where we park our car. The wall that we've uncovered underneath the builder's rubble is in a very poor state and tends to collapse as soon as you touch it! He began to dig out a trench for the foundations, however he soon had to change tack and was sweeping the bed rock to expose a suitable base for the wall!

We have a lot of very large stones lying around so John wanted to create the base of the wall using these, as a way of getting rid of them. I was soon recruited to assist with this exacting task.

John's hoping to get these large stones all joined up tomorrow! Then we can start back-filling them with rubble from the barn ramp.

You may be a little perplexed to understand why we are beavering away building walls when we haven't even got a kitchen. Well, I can't stand looking out at the courtyard covered in rocks and weeds, and John hates going to his workshop when it has rained and getting covered in mud. We are taking advantage of the spell of dry weather to try and get the court yard tidy for the winter.