All we have to do now is wait

Last week we began work on the lane. As anyone with a low slung car will know (e.g Arthur) it was very rutted, with deep channels and irregular humps and bumps. So the first thing to do was to level it.

The excavated spoil was loaded into trailers and taken down the fields to improve the road down to the wood etc.

Then on Monday we started concreting (when I say "we", I mean a local contractor).

 



These photos don't really do them justice, they levelled and smoothed in between loads and sometimes had time to sit and wait for the next wagon.

 

By yesterday afternoon there were just a few finishing touches to do.

 

 

And now it's just a waiting game. We laid about 100 cubic metres, 7 inches deep, reinforced with wire mesh and fibre (?),  and it has to have time to set properly. So it's "No Entry" until the 1st May. We've locked the gates top and bottom, and even put a big bale in front of the bottom gate. The cow track in the field alongside the lane is actually a much better surface than the lane ever was. But not as good as it is now of course.