BASKETTCASE

This is not a pretty picture but there is a lot of information in it. The new stream is in the background with the bridge over it, newly painted but already decorated by passing pigeons. In the foreground is a large hole where we have just succeed in digging out the old bog garden. The liner is at the start of the bridge, next to a large pot of irises which had to be dug out. Soil is piled up all round the hole and you can see the layer of sand that was under the liner. The yellow bucket is one third full of bindweed roots which were in the layer of sand. The ant-stop on the bridge tells its own story. We are both broken yet again, and were glad to leave it all and go for a hair-cut. We nearly went to sleep by the time Maxine had finished. We are getting quite excited now, and our motivation exceeds our stamina every day. Will it be done in time for the summer BBQ? It might, if we hadn't also got to empty the mobile home and get it demolished, sort out the blue bedroom where we dumped all the furniture from the annexe bedroom when we transferred all Joe and Sally's furniture down there. We had been hoping to get the damp plaster in the blue room sorted and decorated before we put the room to rights but might well have to do a temporary job. Life is never boring!

The built-in sand-pit for the boys is made, but I'll post a picture of that when we have slabbed all round it and it doesn't look as if we've left an oblong of decking lying around!