Today, the sun shone and the work got done!

If yesterday's heavy rain had continued into today then it would have held us up. However, it was an almost spring like day, ideal for cracking on with the work. John, Adam and Bob were on site from early on, and worked valiantly with Mr. Womble, the Dorset Volunteer Coordinator and two helpers engaged in community service activity. At least half of the site was dug, and Bob put all the boundary boards in place, effectively outlining our plot. As the following picture shows, John (AC Volunteer Coordinator for the project, and Faaf expert/activist) exhibited what might become a new fashion in trousers, but looking at the state of his knees, he might have spent a little to much time supplicating in front of our very own Horticultural Consultant (Bob 'Round-Up' Christian).

Spot on 12 midday the first shift departed (well except for Bob who stayed on to spread some muck on the raspberries) and the second shift (Fran and Matthew Jack) arrived. We set on preparing the base for the shed, now due to arrive a day later than previously reported, that is on 8th March.

Matthew Jack was surgically separated from his XBox and on arrival almost enthusiastically started levelling the ground for the shed base. Here he is in the picture below. He continued the trouser fashion show, as initiated by Jon, by sporting low slung builder's bum/emo type skinnys and colour co-ordinated wellies and a hoody and for some reason, a kind of ethnic yak wool hat. Apparently it is important to look cool at all times, even on an allotment.

Anyway, much of the site was dug, yet more couch grass was removed, the rhubarb was transplanted to a more convenient part of the plot along with a good row of raspberry canes, all rescued from the site and finally, a level base was made (using existing concrete blocks that were found on the plot), ready to take the shed. Here is a picture of the site as it looked at 3pm today. Have a look at the pictures taken at the beginning of the project and posted here in earlier blog posts, to see how far we have progressed. Note in the following pic - the shed base, the dug ground and the perimeter boards...its starting to look good!