Work restarts

With planning almost secured, and the sun shining, we resumed operations at the barn today.  Had to give the grass a cut, Misan with the mower, me with the strimmer.  We kept encountering stones in the undergrowth, blocks of ironstone either off the barn walls or, more likely, from an old retaining wall across the plot that is now buried in vegetation.  So decided to collect them up, and gathered about ten barrow loads that we've saved, 'cos I'm sure we'll need every stone we can find when it comes to repairing and raising the barn walls.  Found some interesting creatures under one:


Then almost destroyed my chainsaw in taking down the remaining trunk of our big willow tree.  Took about an hour, and 3 tanks of petrol and chain saw oil, before it finally cut through.  Don't know what we're gonna do with the trunk now.  It's about 5' high, 3' diameter and impossible to lift, so we'll have to see if the digger can do something with it once the builder starts.


Took a couple of photos, inside and out, that we'll repeat as work progresses.  Here's the starting point: