If a barrow holds x per cent of a ton, how long does it take one man with one barrow to spread 20 tons of gravel? Yes, the deliveries have started to arrive. The digger has extended the driveway, which will make parking the campervan much easier. That was another man, working until nine o’clock the other evening. It has been all go here at the homestead, as they say. And now the blocks and cement etc are arriving for the foundations of the extension. The founds look more like a swimming pool at the moment, so there is to be a portable pump to keep things dry.
In years gone by I would have been helping out wherever I could – in fact, I must have moved many tons of gravel in my time. Not so now, unfortunately. My role is reduced to kitchen duty and doggy-invalid duty. Herself is recovering well, only the odd squeak now and then when the stitches pull. As for Him Behind the Wheel……well, he seems to be having a wonderful time up to his armpits in mud.