Monthly Archives: March 2013

The cavalry arrived today in the form of Evan! He and Thomas got right round the large rectangle of trenches (uncovering another bit of water pipe in the process!). Beltie’s mountain is really getting big now and a new ramp … Continue reading →

No progress at all today, apart from trying the Hilti powder-fired nail gun, only to find we’d bought the wrong nails.

Tuesday today. A bit of snow overnight and more fell through the day. No helpers today but Thomas almost got to the end of the strip. You can see the water pipe in the photo (with two pillows and some … Continue reading →

it’s Monday of Thomas’s full week off between jobs, and some helpers arrived this morning (despite the weather!). They’ve made great progress for such a miserable day and have finished almost another strip and a half:

This weekend was a bit of a wash out but it gave Thomas a well-earned break even if he spent a lot of the time frustratedly staring out of the window at the rain!  He has persevered between showers today … Continue reading →

So we are about 4 weeks in, having started with something that looked like this in the summer: We started by clearing the chuckies from the path (stored in ton bags), dismantling the ‘stream’ (keeping all the stones in a … Continue reading →