Digger Day!

Day 5
27/10/12: Volunteers - Dwayne, Austin & Katie

Day Five and we were back to three volunteers......

 and a little friend we made after he nearly met his match in the form of Austins spade! 

Fortunately I had packed my spade for vertically challenged volunteers, so our new little friend could help!     

             

 

We finished off tidying up the back of the middle two plots

......I made a compost bin out of some mysterious palates that appeared on our plot during the week.

Keith?!

Because everyone involved in the project so far also have 9-5 jobs we are like ships in the night. Each having keys for the allotment I am hoping each time I go down some magic fairies will have done something!

Unfortunately no magic fairies had done any digging................

We had however found out that ALL the four plots are indeed ours. Meaning that the half a days work I had done on the plot was ours after all......Phew! 

........and so we carried on digging the other plots, now knowing they all had to be dug!

A couple of hours in we had a visitor! 

Tony - aka God! 

Tony - as you might guess; is the amazing, kind & generous owner of this digger you see on the right!
We had a conversation with Tony about the project and he was impressed with what we had managed to achieve by hand, but suggested that perhaps his digger might make the work slightly easier.............

YES!!!! 

I explained to tony that we were a charity and therefore on a very tight budget. Tony really kindly let us have the use of his digger for free if we filled up the tank with diesel.

Wayne was driving the digger for us, his method was to use the claw as a scraper and pull all the foliage back into piles for us. Instantly saving us about three days work. Tony reckons a digger can work about 7 times faster than man power! I reckon its more like 20 times..............

After a while Wayne had to leave......and left us in charge of the digger. Wise?! 

OMG! Digging is so much fun! 

Where there was green twenty minutes before - now there was glorious mud!

I've never been so happy about seeing mud! Infact, I dont think I've ever been happy about seeing mud - until now!

Thank You Tony! 

We had come prepared - we've learnt that on an allotment you need supplies! 

Gas Stove burgers all round! 

 Mud, Glorious Mud! 

We were all so elated at the end of this day!