The Waffling Wombat

[Pellson]

Speaking of gardens - I once worked together with a bloke from Cirencester who exclaimed that "in Gloucestershire, we don't have gardens. We have land"

I never quite got that fully explained..

[PR19_Kit]

Speaking of gardens - I once worked together with a bloke from Cirencester who exclaimed that "in Gloucestershire, we don't have gardens. We have land"

Hah! Typical West Glos attitude! They think  they own the world on that side.

[buzzbomb]

Nice to see some other works here Guy, do not venture down here much, but will try to remember the Blog holes exist more often.

[NARSES2]

I then top-dressed the lawn to start trying to get all the lumps & bumps out of it & getting it smoother & more level ... This will take a few passes to get done right (almost like PSR, really),

So preparing the wicket for 25/26 already I see ? 

[Old Wombat]

I then top-dressed the lawn to start trying to get all the lumps & bumps out of it & getting it smoother & more level ... This will take a few passes to get done right (almost like PSR, really),

So preparing the wicket for 25/26 already I see ? 

If you tried to play cricket on my lawn there's every chance the bowler could hit himself in the head with an unintentional reversed bouncer!

Seems like you've been having fun in the garden...
Those types of jobs are some of my favorite to do in gardening... unless you have rock hard ground and there's no way to get a digger in there, then you're gonna have a sore back for a couple of days, depending on how many ditches you have to dig, of course... 

As I have a bulged disc in either the lowest/2nd lowest lumbar disc, back pain is to be expected. Luckily there were no trenches involved, just small sections required to remove & replace the sprinklers.

Also luckily, there is a decent amount of sand laid under the grass but I was still down to the underlying clay, which is either brick-hard or sticky & heavy (Littlehampton Bricks & Pavers are well known around South Australia &, I assume, Japan, as that is their major export customer) depending on the time of year and/or how much rain we've received (not much this year, despite the seemingly endless damp & cold over Winter).

But, yes, I much prefer industrial gardening to maintenance gardening. I hate our fruit trees (& would have them out in an instant, if they didn't produce better fruit than can be bought, even from the local fruit & veg shop) but I love the Japanese maples across the front of the house & all the various native plants that don't need pruning.

The lawn is just barely a lawn but just needs some TLC to bring it up to a child-friendly state for the grandwombats, so that's what I'm doing.

[Rheged]

Also luckily, there is a decent amount of sand laid under the grass but I was still down to the underlying clay, which is either brick-hard or sticky & heavy (Littlehampton Bricks & Pavers are well known around South Australia &, I assume, Japan, as that is their major export customer) depending on the time of year and/or how much rain we've received (not much this year, despite the seemingly endless damp & cold over Winter).

But, yes, I much prefer industrial gardening to maintenance gardening. I hate our fruit trees (& would have them out in an instant, if they didn't produce better fruit than can be bought, even from the local fruit & veg shop) but I love the Japanese maples across the front of the house & all the various native plants that don't need pruning.

The lawn is just barely a lawn but just needs some TLC to bring it up to a child-friendly state for the grandwombats, so that's what I'm doing.

Sounds like the grounds of Chateau Rheged.  Heavy, sticky Herefordshire clay that bakes iron hard in hot summers and turns to slop when it rains.  Part of the garden was a temporary car park before the whole complex was converted from Rural District Council offices to housing, so that bit has a three inch layer of compacted gravel.  That's why I have to use a long chisel, a lump hammer and a wrecking bar to plant the roses..............but they are flourishing in the clay.

As to a "piece of green" for our  grand daughters to play on;  a great deal of heavy duty TLC  is needed before it is suitable.    I'm sure that your young wombatlings will enjoy  it whatever you manage to achieve.

[Rick Lowe]

.but they are flourishing in the clay.

There's always an upside.    Though finding it can sometimes involve heavy excavation or an electron microscope...

[Old Wombat]

The Dark Christmas Knight is finished, with the exception of a few blats of matt clear on some of the fix-ups.

Will do that later tonight.

Then photo's, tomorrow, when I find a suitable background - white, red, green, brown & black are unsuitable, as they've been used in the paint job, so I'll probably have to hunt down something (pale) blue.