Mudslide

Thankfully the Met Office have been their usual pessimistic selves. The heavy rain forecast for Sunday didn't turn up - yes it rained all morning and was enough to turn parts of the garden into a quagmire, but it wasn't the torrential rain they implied we would get.

There has been a mudslide, but only a very minor one with a few handfuls (quite literally) of earth slipping into the base of the retaining wall trench in the far back corner. It's nothing of any consequence thankfully.

We've not had chance to see the builders today but it looks as if they've got everything ready for the big pour tomorrow, shame we'll be at work. We thought they might have to postphone the pour with more heavy rain forecast, but that seems to have changed with only occasional showers now expected. Should get home to find a load of concrete.

Had an interesting and unexpected visitor yesterday - a woman who grew up at Hillside, the granddaughter of the boy that planted the Horse Chestnut tree! More details to follow...