I am starting to lose track of the days that have been spent on the dry stone wall in the orchard. I am tending to work on the wall in between doing other things, so very few of the days are dedicated to just building the wall. It would be misleading to say that this is day 33.
I am just about to start digging out the next 3-5m section. I doubt that I am going to be able to build much more until the bottom end of the orchard has been dug out. At the moment, the land rises up and is a good 2ft higher than the road level outside. No doubt this is the result of years of rubbish and undergrowth behind the shed that used to be here. The plan is to use a mini digger to reduce the soil level at this end of the garden. Then we can carry on building the wall.
The builders have offered to show me how to use the mini digger, so this could get interesting!
There is going to be a gate at the far end of the orchard, but I am not going to be able to go much further.
Only about another 10m or so to go in the orchard. Over 30m now completed.