Wall Finished?

Well, after some weeks of work, Allan and I have finished the first section of our dry stone wall. It is quite an impressive structure; or at least, it appears quite impressive to us because we know what a task it has been!

In fact, in pictures, it may not look like much. About 80cm high and perhaps 8m or so long, it is not a huge thing. But with the stone weighing around a ton per metre of length, that's a lot of weight we've shifted into place by hand. Here's some of that weight on the move:

Actually, that's not part of the wall, but one of the stones making up the sitting area we constructed in front of it. Like this:

I like to think of it as a miniature cross between Stonehenge and a stone circle like my favourite one at Castlerigg in Cumbria. We look forward to eating out here in the warmer weather...