rest assured it is nothing like that now!
tatty and overgrown~funny how cody always seems to sneek into the shot!
breaking the ground~swampy starts to dig over the mess of grass and weeds
a small amount of rubble left over from when they built our home~we think instead of taking it away they just left it in the garden and let it grass over
swampy decided the only way to do a good job was to completly dig it over and remove rubble as he went
very odd~we discover the end of an old brick wall sticking out from the end of the path, about a foot down. there has never been a building on this spot, all i can think of is that it is part of a long wall coming up from another building nearby
evidence of the old barn that was nearby, that i remember when i was tiny~a large lump of brick and flint wall!
we have had to design the garden around a manhole cover!
an ever growing pile of rubble!
cody 'helping'~with our makeshift soil sifter
i have an aversion to plain old flower beds so insisted on adding a few curves to keep things interesting.
*there was nothing to save from when we started so we have had to start from scratch*