This weekend's big project was to turn a large area of uneven, stony, root filled ground into perfect bowling green. Okay so it will take more than a weekend to do this but you've got to start somewhere. And maybe not a bowling green but certainly somewhere we can play badminton, table tennis and football over the next few years.
The rotovator arrived Saturday lunchtime. Quite a beast it was - powered by a Honda petrol engine producing 8 horse power of raw power. A simple design it's just an engine with a drive shaft and some rotating blades but it is very effective. It's hard work pressing down and forward on the machine up and down over and over again.
The area to be rotovated is about 15 x 10 metres which basically means I must have pushed the machine about a quarter of mile each time I covered the whole area. Its very satisfying though and with Deborah raking and forking over the ground the lows and highs started to flow together and the ground quickly started to even out.
Saturday evening marked our first dinner party in our new house. A few guests, some wine and food went down a treat. I'd certainly worked up an appetite. But losing an hour with the clock change meant I didn't get much sleep that night. I woke early to go for a run and for once I laboured round.
Back in time for the architect's visit with some drawings of our house to be... well maybe. It's probably over budget but certainly grand in design.
The afternoon was spent doing more rotovating and leveling. Two more times I pushed the rotovator around the entire garden. A perfect lawn never comes easy - and, as you can see from the pictures, is still a little way off.
Next weekend we're building a yoga studio... Roll on 2011...
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