A week of hard Yakka !

I’ve been at work ….. on our new place.

From the photos, it doesn’t look like I have done too much, but 4 days of hard work has resulted in me finally clearing the place a little. We can only do outside work as we have agreed the Lady can stay until the 1st Nov. A bit of a pain, but that was the deal, and we have to stick by it. She has lived there for about 50 years, so I can imagine she is a little upset that I have just gone in and uprooted so much in the garden, cut down trees, bushes and taken away her fruit trees and vines. However, we do talk to her about what we are doing and why, and she seems ok ish (if she isn’t, well, I can’t understand that can I).

Also, out of these pictures are the 30 plus concrete fence posts that we have moved from the upper Vine Yard to the place so I can build a new driveway / entrance that doesn’t involve trucks going over my grass ! They are chuffing heavy, but needed for the driveway base !

So… this is what it did look like :

Note all the heavy concrete posts, and the huge bushes at the right end of the house.. all had to come out, all very heavy !

In the picture below, you can just see, to the bottom right a stone bath. Next to this is a deep well. We want to try to keep both of these, and build the well into a nice old fashioned feature.. we will see !

And this is now how it looks :

Here I have cleared about 4-5 trees. One was a spikey bastard that bought nothing to the garden. Also, trimmed the lower branches away so I can mow the grass properly. The main tree here is a wonderful walnut tree, and I sit here looking at our new home drinking a beer.. perfection !

Getting the concrete fence posts out of the ground was a nightmare… really hard work, but we are pleased we can finally see the house, and have removed all the old shite from the front where our morning patio will stand eventually. Bright sparks amongst you will have noticed I have missed a couple of trees. Well, these are peach trees, and we hope they will prosper and give us lovely peaches. It might not look like I have done too much, but digging out roots, cutting down bushes and tress is hard work, and I can tell you, come the 5th November, we will have a proper bonfire !

Somebody though wasn’t really impressed on inclined to help !