The groundworks for the polytunnel required demolishing a concrete manure store and digging up the base as well as levelling the area which we decided needed the use of a digger rather than us with spades. We had intended to hire a mini digger but were fortunate that Pete has a friend with a very large digger who was willing to come and do the honours. He made short work of the demolition and levelling althought at one point we wondered if he was going to find the legendary tunnel from our house to the island as he went down to such a depth in order to bury all the debris! 
With the base completed we needed to dig 0.5metre deep holes to take the base plates -easier said than done given the amount of stone that we encountered on the way down. All of them are complete now and I have constructed the timber doors ready to insert once the structure is up. There were 19 packages of parts and it resembles a giant meccano set for grown ups - not surprising that the first instruction in the 56 pages is to sit down with a cup of tea and read them thoroughly!!
We won't be able to get any further as we are off to Oberammegau today to see the passion play with Daniel and Julie and will be bringing Bethan and Toby back with us for a week afterwards .While I'm sure they would be keen to help, the finished result might not be quite what we are looking for!
The chickens continue to lay well and in fact, at the moment are producing more eggs than we can use, despite a batch of baking for the community coffee morning and several cooked breakfasts! There are rumblings about possibly rearing some turkeys for Christmas next .....watch this space!
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