April 2012.
23 degrees last week in Rotherham. been working in Sheffield this week- 2 degrees in the snow!
started work at Southey Green learning community with Jim of Greener Places www.greenerplaces.co.uk

Their wildlife quadrangle garden was in need of a little tlc, so Jim and I set about putting in new paths, a lawn, a dipping platform and some new planting. The snag was everything that went in had to go up a ramp, through the school and into the garden. So between us, we shifted 20 tons of red shale (for the path) 2 tons of slate (next to the pond) 4 tons of gravel (planting areas) and a ton of top soil (under the turf)... of yeah, plus all the turf and bark chip, plants and dipping platform- all by wheel barrow. And we filled an 8 ton skip of rubbish we removed. Anyway, after 8 days its starting to look pretty good. the next step now is to do some design work with pupils and staff to develop benches, a raised bed and a lookout platform/ bird hide ( and to put that half a stone back on I lost barrowing all that stuff!).