Driveway and front garden

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Before the jungle got cleared

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After felling the trees, digging roots and shifting a foot of top soil to the back garden
we ended up with the nuclear accident landscape look....
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This took months of seriously hard work to shift it all
I did it by hand! and managed to only kill one wheelbarrow
Needless to say we had a few months of serious bonfires to get rid of the wood!


Driveway preperation- 19-1-06
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Pouring Concrete Slab (Very Long day!)

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Putting Block paving edge in and testing to see if its stong enough!

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Just need to get some brick walls up and some gates
Then stand back and wait for nature to do its stuff in the borders....Fizz!!