PROGRESS REPORT: March
Writing "the story of the disaster"
was cathartic and has allowed me to move on.
Cards and lovely sentiments, cheques and offers of help have
been arriving in some number.
It is all very heartening. I am deeply grateful; it makes
it easy to be positive, even enthusiastic.
Suddenly I’m in a position to order timber, windows,
to book plumbers and electricians.
Following the snow and the Birthday Walk, I was ready at last
to get on with things at Garth.
First to be finished was a small landscaping job; making two
planters-cum-boundary fences.
Then on Sunday March 7th eight
local lads, school-friends of Tamlyn, came to set up the next
job – also landscaping. In a couple of hours they moved
various collections of reclaimed bricks and piled them where
they are needed.
The plan is to make a long planting trough against the new
wall I made early last Summer after digging away the bank
- mostly composed of solid stone! This project has been ongoing
for several years and is in its final stages.
When it’s done there will a wide area where a pair of
caravans I am able to borrow can stand.
There will then be a cosy place to stay overnight for myself
and anyone else coming to visit. This will simplify taking
up offers of help.
With the bricks all moved, the lads wanted to do some more
work, so we all spent another couple of hours clearing the
last of the debris from the top floor of the Hexagon. It is
now all swept and ready for removing the roof mid-April.
Over the next fortnight the wall progressed.
Liz came down from Wallesey and helped and Stewart helped
with the concreting stage.
After the wall the next job is erecting the scaffolding for
removing the slates and doing the roof. Several capable people
have offered to make up a team to do this.
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