A bit of a change part 2 - Day 2

 

Hmm the gnome is looking bemused!

 

There's a moat - and a bridge across it!

 

Hmm pillars?

 

I have recycled the recycled railway sleepers - again

 

It'll stop my little cutie banties from scatching any soil onto the grass.

The flower bed is looking a bit jaded - we still are hoping for rain.  I'll give it a nice mulch of well rotted manure, and get some summer perennials to add some colour

 

I have got to nail these sleepers together yet, but it looks much better than before.   I need to fence off the peas properly to keep the rabbits out and pesky pigeons.

To be continued.

A bit of a change part 2

Towards the end of May I decided to have a 'bit of a change' in the garden - and after being away for a week - we returned home and Monday got a surprise. Men and machines turned up unannounced just as I was going out the door - so I have been confined to barracks for the past couple of days.

 

Here are the tools

 

After mugs of tea and digestive biscuits - the raised bed is dismantled

 

The slabs come up

 

The digger digs

 

Twelve years ago when we had work done - it was nice and quiet.  Men with spades and shovels and muscles - now it's a man with a noisy digger - at least I can turn my hearing aids off and not hear a thing!

 

The 'boss' said that we wouldn't have enough soil from the trenches to fill the pond!

 

Bricks are appearing!

 

The 'boss' was wrong - the soil has not only filled the pond, but covered all that corner of the garden and more besides!

 

End of day one - looking like an archeological dig!