hard labour ...

I've said it before, I know, I know.. but our lives do resemble those doing some kind of community payback.

Here's Ali, Simon and Ben adding their muscle as we shape the mounding at the edge of what I call 'Halibut Wood' and the end of the Stumpery.

And for the record, below is the mud bath that lies at the top of the Stumpery that will, one day, be the place where two connected ponds will be.

Try and picture in your minds two beautiful ponds in the summer at twilight refracted through a shifting haze of midges.....