Another idea!

I would like to plant some fruit bushes, so to soften the blow to David i am very kindly saving him £30 (lorry tyre disposal fee) and I am going to use them as planters and they will also save on posts, to hold up the bank!! I am so considerate, David used another word...
Also a path would look good, we have some old black bricks and red tiles which need using...i've also decided that i like the number 3 (it is my birth path number, the difference between lana and chelsies 7 & 4) - so i have themed my 'sanctury area' on 3. It also stands for:

• Past Present and Future
• Mineral, Vegetable and Animal
• Solid, Substantial and Entire
• Fairies are meant to live between 3 trees, oak, ash and thorn.

If you look closely at the picture on the left by the carrots, my bees have a new home...thank you Louisa.

Wood henge

Well, David and the girls really think i've lost the plot( pardon the pun) "oh no! what have you done now?" "you are sooo embarrasing!" "What on earth!"

They have no immagination, just wait they will think that my hammocks are great, i wish now though i had only ordered 1 for me and i could have smugly rocked watching the clouds go by....no doubt one of them would have tipped me out! So 3 it is and 1 hammock chair.

yumm yumm

It is all growing really well. Ihave had another idea, i need a place to relax to after picking out the weeds, lugging my buckets of collected rainwater and picking off all the enemies, no! not the planners, slugs, snails, caterpillars. So i think, i need 3 telegraph poles in a triangle, so i can hang hammocks from them...Bees return

Fingers crossed

It is now submitted. The plans..., not my application to a 'mind retirement home'.
Hypocrasy! All the policies for this and that -environmental, sustainable, eco, access and future istic building regulations, most of which I do agree with. But there is a Big- HOWEVER, I have just sent in an aplication which was aprox 33 pages- then I have had to copy it 4 times at least 130 pages of wasted ink, electricity, paper etc- I am sure in this techno, electronic year2008 we live in, this is not necessary.
On the good side my local MP visited our 'gable end monument' and has pledged his support. Little words of support mean alot and I have been surprised where these have been delivered from. Thank you -
So, in the mean time , I will continue to clean bricks (1 a day is enough!) and plant my gold plated potatoes with my fingers crosed.

S +(Sand + gravel+ cement)+ Bricks= gate pillars - inches

After endless interogation( How far, How long, Where, when) I relenquished my title and allowed David to be King Bee, on 2nd thoughts Prince Bee for a day. I was on a layby on the M66, the pillars and tape measure were 81 miles away and as I have never hung a gate before I delegated.
We are hanging the gates using hook and band cranked hinges with the gates set back on the pillar and automating them with a maxim 600(?) - this has been recommended because of ...yes you have guessed it the windy conditions!

After all the disappointing occurances on the site- Steve our Brick layer is a Windfall, he brings with him a breeze of ideas and a hurricane of energy and speed (pardon the pun).

Veg patch-Progress made- potatoes, carrots, onions, garlic and very nearly David planted. ( he dug up my potatoes!)

My Veg patch building

I knew there would be a bonus to Barn building halting...My vegetable raised beds can now be completed. I had choosen Australian hardwood, as these are a stronger wood without being treated with carcinogenic creosote.
After spending 2 hours measuring up and 'uming and ahing' (as David had left my scaled to the millimetre plan in the JCB) we began the raised beds. As I am busy humming in my work thinking distantly of my crop rotation and organic veggies, herbs and leaves...and being a Garden Godess. David is thinking about and actually making his views known to all, that he'll be glad when the seedlings are in the soil and not on the bedroom windowsill. Who tolerates who????
So, the loss of The Barns progress has earned me 'some men at work' in my patch!

Foundations

Now my little nest has begun, Freezing temperatures but...

the site is full of little bees today and i do feel like Queen Bee! That is until David raises his voice and says " there are too many bloody chiefs here and not enough Indians" Oh dear -he has missed my fluttering wings and mistaken me for someone running round with a feather in their hair!

I think I am one of the only calm bees here today, oh Nipper and Robbie but they always are! Poor David- working alongside his Dad, who has adult hyperactivity disorder and me who is bleating about Pythagoras and his square foundations he runs to the quiet comfort of the mini digger and mutters" just tell me where to dig" So that i did,

I only have myself to blame when the finished shape resembles a polygram not a neat rectangle...i will pretend it was the 'contemporary sleek shape' that I sought!

The afternoon warmed up so we ordered the concrete and the clay holes in the ground now look like foundations.

The bad news for today is that along with the delivery of my Australian railway sleepers, which will enable me to grow gold platted lettuce to recoup the cost and the concrete I have managed to spend 4 figures without even entering a shop!