RIP Porcie

13 month old Porc noir (Porcie) didn't roll in for breakfast this morning.  We found him dead by the side of the road around 1pm.  Poor kitten.

11 tonnes of gravel

11 tonnes of gravel sounds a lot until you realise this is only 30mm over 140m2, which is roughly the parking area we now have.  The drive, due to be concreted is another 150m2.

The lorry really struggled to get up the drive, partly because it's rained since Christmas and partly because he did it in reverse, uphill, and managed to get the rear wheels off the drive which then slipped on the grass.

We also dug out another metre on the parking area and gravelled this.  All in all, we've used about 10 tonnes and I've shovelled the rest to the edge of the turning circle.  Did this in less than a day, so we're quite tired now!

Just a small pile of surplus now.

Digger

Allan came over with his digger and dug out the turning circle and the pond.
4 hours for a small extension to the drive and about an hour to enlarge the old ditch into a pod.

And another hour the following day to get the digger on the trailer