As we approach the Bank Holiday weekend, Mike and I are gearing up for a few more days of hard work – we hope. We have ‘Jabberwocky’ playing in the cafe tomorrow night, so also need to get ready to boogie the night away, remembering that our last music night was great fun. Meanwhile, a short recap of the last three days pretty much reads as: Mike has been remodelling the windows whilst I remodel the rock face.
Mike first. He has been replacing the glass, first in the second set of patio doors leading onto the balcony, and then in room 7 which is just above the cafe.
I have been working mostly on the landscaping. You may recall a previous shot:
With the help of Osian, we set to on Wednesday and managed to make quite a difference. Between the two of us, we removed several dodgy saplings, and levered off quite a collection of rhodo stumps. These stumps are of seriously impressive dimension. Over the past who-knows-how-many years, the rhodos have layered and seeded such that there is a huge network of roots and stumps all growing close to the rock face, all interlinked, and requiring a lot of welly to move them.
This last photo is not as clear as I would have liked, but you can see a massive piece of rhodo root (upside down, on right hand side) that we have levered off, leaving a new section of rock exposed. It took three of us the best part of a couple of hours to shift this. The breeze block in shot was intended to give a sense of scale, but I am not convinced it will cause you to be sufficiently impressed when you see it – it was huge!
The rest of the time has been spent on regular life; burning the huge pile of roots, branches and leaves we have moved; and filling the skip which arrived yesterday and which is already full with broken glass and yet more mattresses.