Scaffold

More progress this week, with the scaffold that has shrouded the bedroom extension finally taken down. It's amazing how much the appearance of the new part of the cottage has changed now that it's fully exposed.

We had hoped that the removal of the scaffold would mean the return of the mini-digger this week, but looks like that'll not be for another week due to other commitments. When it returns the mini-digger has a few jobs lined up - finally re-introducing the dry ditch at the top of the hill, levelling off the topsoil, and excavating the hole for the rainwater harvesting tank. The 1500 litre tank arrived this week so we could do with getting it into the ground in advance of the plumber starting first fix.

One thing we didn't need the digger for was removal of yet another body from the garden! While replanting the hedge on Good Friday we found a half buried old blanket which, rather aptly for the time of year, turned out to be a shroud. It was only as we dug the rest of the balnket out from it's shallow grave and were greeted by the death snarl of a canine skull that we realised we'd found yet another of Hillside's previous four-legged residents. Unlike the goat bones which still adorn the top of the hill, which I must collect and give a proper burial, the dog-in-a-blanket has been rather unceremonioulsy dumped in the builders skip. I'm sure it wont mind!