We had a great time even though we had problems with heating and hot water! The weather helped a lot - as did the food. As usual, Wally prepared a four course roast dinner to kick us off on Friday evening - and it kept coming: cooked breakfasts; curry on Saturday evening (with all the trimmings) and a finish-up-what's-left lunch on Sunday.
We are already taking bookings for next year - click here for more details.
Here are some photos. Click any image to see a larger version...
Where we were working...
Courthill farmhouse is a vacant property on the Slindon Estate. It has a lot of potential to generate income for the estate and the National Trust is considering how best to use it. In the mean time, the gardens need a lot of work to prevent them from becoming a wilderness.
Before and after...
Tom - our supervisor for the week-end - assigned us a set of tasks that we divided up between us. Here's some before and after images:
And some more after...
Unless someone has some before photos, you'll have to imagine how the site looked before we got going.
Clean up...
In case you were wondering what happened to the debris, we kept what logs the NT could sell off and burned the rest - all of it!
And then...
... to bed:
