Garden - from wilderness to fun family space

The clearance has started. Nothing but an old slide & rubbish hidden in ivy, brambles and weeds.

Burning the brambles

 Burning, clearing, going to the tip. For weeks.

 Wall of brambles 12' tall

The shedhad arrived & been put up by John & Zach

 More burning

Shed painted. Boys variously helping/watching

The back wall is discovered! 

 See those bits sticking up - bramble stems to dig up!

 More tea breaks and more burning. Length of the garden becoming apparent.

 That is a dug bed, ready for the raspberries, currants, blue berries & strawberries to arrive. Chicken hut can just be seen at the back ground.

 Herb garden laid.

 More clearance - behind and around the shed space. Warm work for late Jan!

 Marking out where the yurt will be!

 Fruit bushes put in!

 Leylandii hedge cut back and burnt. The last burings.

 Tending to chickens, the thing on Johns head is the weather proofing for the food dispenser.

 Trampoline had to be bought & used! Now this garden lark is more fun for the kids.

 Using the chickens to clear the ground where the yurt is planned to go.

Flowers from Katy. feeling ever more garden like and less wilderness

 Ben showing how no amount of H&S will stop stupid

Laying the foundations for the yurt base

Ruth & Tom inspect progress so far. Dont think they were impressed.Look like brave smiles to me.

 Things growing!

 Yurt base being made!

 Zach enjoying the space

 Yurt being made, by Meadow Yurts - they came from Cornwall especially

The yurt is made!

 Moving chickens about

 Inside the yurt. A great extra room, and guest space.

 Have yurt, now to continue to evlove the space around it.

 Garden fun - water fight!!

 Home brewing got started again - always a sign a house (or hovel) is becoming a home. And that brewing needs somewhere to be.

Shed is at this point wired up to the mains with its own fuse box and everything.  So it has heat and light. A home office and a place for home brew!

 See desk to the right and refreshment to the left

 Just enjoying what we had created.