CDENT (otherwise known as the County Durham Environmental Trust) sent me an email yesterday afternoon informing me that our application had been successful in everyhting except the large specimen apple tree. Which means that we can really start thinking about what plants we want in the garden now and hopefully stop thinking about where we are going to get money from!!
Have been so busy the last couple of weeks I haven't written anything but we have been making steady progress - we've been painting the east fence last weekend and the weekend before and it's now almost painted front and back. I was away last weekend but peter pan and helpers carried on and made even better progress without me :)
I've put in a few pictures of us in motion but this was almost two weeks ago now - if you look carefully you can see the foundations are still just a trench - a very level, even trench nicely pegged out and very very square trench but a trench none the less. A trench which is now a beautifully laid concrete foundation complete with small time capsule in the SE corner.
We've sent a flyer round the village inviting anyone who wants to come join us painting to turn up this weekend at the Community Garden at 11am with old clothes and a friendly smile. - See you there!!
Great news! Does the money include the price for the parrots for the greenhouse?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I lost my friendly smile in The Wash, so I'll have to pass on the offer to help with the fence.