You can't make an omelette

Without breaking some eggs

And the walls came tumbling down

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Thursday saw Rangers Dan and Paul and Volunteer Jim head off to Ennerdale School for the second phase of our garden restoration project, as mentioned before, our  Wordsworth House Gardener Amanda is designing the garden and it's new planting scheme and we're doing the hard landscaping. Today's task was to remove crumbling facing stone from the retaining walls to prepare for a more suitable sandstone arriving next week. Before long we had removed the flagstones from the wall top and set about stripping back the facing stone, alarmingly quite a lot of the retaining wall came with it so more repairs needed!! By mid morning we had made good progress and were rewarded with coffee and cake, Dan even had whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles in his coffee!!

Yum Yum

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We got back to it and by lunchtime were starting to barrow loads of stone into a waiting trailer it was a surprise how quickly the trailer was filled, lots more stone than we'd originally thought, but soon it was off the short distance where it will be used as backfill in repairs to a collapsed river bank and track.When we'd swept and tidied the playground the scale of next weeks task,refacing the walls, became apparent, hopefully a good turnout of volunteers and some nice weather will help us on our way, check back here and see how we're getting on, and if you're passing, pop in and say hello.

A quick sweep up and we're ready for the next bit

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