Published on 12, July, 2020
I finally got access back to my account - thank you NAS IT team x
And the weather is absolutely glorious today after about a month of wind and rain which meant I got to get back out in to the garden to clear the out the old stable barn.
Most of the rubbish in there is cleared out now at the front, but there's an awful lot of soil still scattered there. So I picked up my shovel and got digging today! About an hours work and the bricked flooring got to bask in the sunlight once again... :)
I found this old bit of guttering buried under there.
And the end result of todays work.
It's amazing how good condition the brickwork is still in after all this time!
Overall I am very pleased with the progress I am making and so far it's doing me a lot of good personally as well with my mental health. I feel really well in that regard and it's been helping my fibromyalgia as well. I'm in a lot less pain.
I'll keep you posted on my progress with this. If the weather is good again then I'll be back at it again tomorrow! For now I'm off to rest.
Happy Wednesday all! X
The weather was cloudy but dry which meant I was able to get back outside and do more to the stable barn today.
More digging *groans* but absolutely worth it!
As you can see much more of the brick floor is visible now and after a sweep I'm sure it will look much nicer and more how it used to look back before I was born when it was in use by my grandmother as her herbology building.
The next stumbling block and tomorrows task - if the weather is good - will be removing these roots and the big tree stump that's grown up through the floor.
Not exactly sure how I'll get past this yet but I'm sure I'll figure it out!
I'm really pleased with how this is going so far. I love how much progress I've made in a relatively short amount of time and I'm looking forward to seeing where this leads.
L said:Sad that they were ever needed in the first place but fascinating all the same.
I live near Portsmouth (my home city) and it was heavily bombed during the war.
When I was growing up I played on bomb sites.
There were shelters in a lot of gardens and I know some of the bombs fell local to where I live now as there's a modern house in our road where a bomb flattened the original house (hence there were air raid shelters here too).
L said:Have you visited the Last Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall?
Sadly not.
The book sounds fascinating and I will be getting it for myself. Have you visited the Last Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall? I have a couple of times in the past and hope to do so again soon. It is indeed fabulous, and the story of its rescue after being lost for so long is amazing.
Really beautiful place to visit. Recommend if you ever can go.
It's almost like the land that time forgot...
I love this!!! That looks like a big project but fun too. Imagine the history... Sad that they were ever needed in the first place but fascinating all the same.
Thank you! It's been a long haul so far but definitely rewarding and I'm enjoying every second of it, apart from the shovelling of course.
You may eventually uncover a secret garden (although you'd probably know if one existed).
I would love for that to happen...
Project demolish the WW2 Air Raid Shelter
We had a WW2 brick and concrete air raid shelter knocked down in our garden a couple of years ago.
I will look out some photos, although unfortunately the last time I tried to upload photos from my PC I couldn't.
Happy Wednesday!
Well done - that's very hard work, but rewarding.
I read a book about the Lost Gardens of Heligan and that was fascinating.
You have an adventure ahead.
Enjoy