Day 1 - Cutting the first sods
Day 1 - Digging into the old road
Day 1 - How do I get out of here?
Day 1 - Cutting sand filter outlet trench
Day 1 - Nosy cat (Magic) in outlet trench
Day 1 - There's a big hole in my promenade des chats
Day 2 - Drain layer and piping
Day 2 - Adding shingle to drain layer
Day 2 - Transferring shingle to smaller truck
Day 3 - Drain layer piping, shingle and filter mesh
Day 3 - Transferring sand to smaller truck
Day 3 - Sand delivery truck
Day 3 - Adding filter sand
Day 4 - Top layer of weed-proof geotextile
Day 4 - Nosy cat wonders where her big sand box has gone
Day 4 - Feed layer shingle and piping
Day 5 - Water running from ripped-up feed pipe
Day 5 - Battle of the Somme?
Day 5 - Water pipe after repair by water board
Day 6 - The chasse à auget (dosing trough)
Day 6 - Lowering fosse into position
Day 6 - System in place - vent pipe being installed
Day 6 - Grubbing up an old ash stump
Day 7 - Sewage to the left, rainwater to the right
Day 7 - Vent pipe
Day 7 - System in place before covering
Day 8 - Covering and tidying
Day 8 - Earth retaining wall being built
Day 9 - Shuttering to finish retaining wall
Day 9 - Nectarine planted in old stump hole
Day 10 - almost finished
Day 11 plus - Earth fill to be leveled
Day 11 plus - just leveling and tidying to do
Day 11 plus - Wall looks neater
Day 11 plus - leveled and grass planted, wall rendered and capped
Epilogue - grass appearing