All done!

From this



To this

To this



And finally...this!

 In a week of hard work.

I keep coming out of the door and wondering whose garden is outside as I don't recognise it, it looks so different!

Oh dear..it all went a bit wrong today

Today was the day the top gravel was being delivered. The lorry arrived and started to tip the gravel where we wanted it.

Piles in different places around the drive and yard, so Ken and Compostman could then shovel it and JCB it into place.

Inside the drive all was going very well, but when the lorry had deposited the last pile the trailer part wouldn't go back down!





So the lorry could not drive away... due to the overhanging branches of the big oak tree one way up the lane and the power cables down the lane the other way.



The lorry sat there for nearly 4 hours until it could be fixed. Fortunately not blocking either our drive OR the road!

Need more stone! and what else has been going on...

Today we had more scalpings ( base stone) delivered and Ken the Diggerman and Compostman and I spread them out over the area of the yard and drive.

It is HARD work, no wonder breaking/moving stone was deemed a suitable punishment for criminals the world over!

We are now ready for the top layer of gravel ( from the Forest of Dean, local stone to us) BUT there are no available lorries to collect and deliver until late tomorrow.


So, we are levelling and putting up gate posts and I am busy cleaning out hen houses ready for a hen keeping course at the weekend.

Eco Club is coming here for a Forest School Party tomorrow so I need to sort stuff out AND have to make a hard decision. is it too windy and will I have to call it all off on safety grounds?

Digging deeper.

This is what our drive looked like earlier this year. Weedy, a mess and not very nice to live with.



So I contacted Ken and his JCB.  He does all sorts of stuff, including drives! This is Ken digging the trench a couple of weeks back, for the armoured cable needed to connect the PV's to the house. Can you see more of the horrible gravel and weeds?



This is today. Ken and a colleague arrived yesterday at 9 am, JCB, tractor and trailer in tow, to remove and reuse (as a farm trackway) all the rubbishy stone on our drive. When it is all gone, they will then lay a lovely new lot of stone and gravel (all local) on top of a geotextile sheet. That should keep out the weeds!



We have had two solid days of JCB activity, with them scraping and tipping and working very hard. We have been hard at work on it as well, shovelling and moving and taking out gate posts etc. The JCB has just left and it is lovely and quiet here now!

And it is already looking bigger and better, even though it has yet to have the stone replaced.

That will happen on Monday :-)

So what have you done today?