Flagstones, etc.

From this delicious pile of stones,

This tempting, desireable heap of extremely heavy slabs…

We are managing to extract, with much huffing and puffing, a paved dooryard.

In other paving news, we will shortly be excavating, filling and paving an area of 8′ x 12′ for this shiny, lovely new greenhouse, which has been donated by the ever-giving Anthony Up-The-Hill.

We had to go take it to pieces small enough to bring in the car or in the case of the wall sections, his van, and it wasn’t a tenth as clean as it looks in the picture, so we did spend two days cleaning all the glass and will spend another two cleaning the metal bits, but it’s a fabulous thing and will make an amazing outdoor shower/winter picnic area when filled with beautiful plants.

Aaaaannnndddd…. I’m still working on the mosaic.

Tom came round and helped with above mentioned stone shifting and then with clearing a load of undergrowth from the woods, a huge and thankless task we’ve been meaning to do for years, since we last saw any sign of the forest floor. There is much more to do, but between that and the rescue plants Alex helped us plant at the foot of the drive, we have some hope of making the approach to the place look less of a tangled wilderness.

Julian found these very promising looking mushrooms while clearing some land today. We thought they must be puffballs, many of which are edible varieties.

But alas, opening them up proved them to be the very inedible earthball variety.

So they are now compost.