Victoria Clare wrote:

Hello Victoria

VC Mmmm - Sunday evening, but no progress report. What do we
VC reckon? Is he sitting sadly in the middle of a vast muddy
VC pit, wondering how to climb out?

It went surprisingly smoothly. Yeah, I was astonished that nothing
broke, I found no water pipes and broke no bones. Makes me suspicious.

VC I've had a look out of the window, and I can't *see* any new
VC tors from here...

One thing I underestimated was the amount of soil to come out of a 15m

x5m x 1m pond. It's a lot. A real lot. Plus a further 20' diameter
circle dug into a 8 degree slope resulted in another big lot. Which
has to be barrowed across to the other side. Prolly about 5 ton of
topsoil or so.

Surprisingly good topsoil here, all nice free-draining loamy stuff,
and a full 3 feet of it before hitting the clay sub, which means I had
no problem disposing of the subsoil, because there wasn't any.

And I've reached the pivotal point of nearly being able to order the
butyl.

Note to self: Must sort out 20 ton of walling granite.

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Simon Avery, Dartmoor, UK Ý http://www.digdilem.org/