There's grass in the garden, but not as we know it

Another rain-free day so we tackled the area in front of the house.  Firstly it was raked and cleared of stones (well we tried to remove them but quite a few small ones will have slipped through), and then we had to level it. Cue a nice, simple method that resulted in much hilarity - and a certain amount of intrigue from the cows, who came to watch!

 Next we collected the grass cores from the golf club - the product of hollow coring, which usually goes to waste - and laid it on top of the soil.  The cores have a mixture of grass, soil and sand in them, so hopefully they will bed in during the winter before we seed in spring.

Job done!

The lads have gone, the rain has stopped (for now at least), and we can finally admire the shed extension. All this rain has exposed a design flaw - we need a door to the log store, hence the curtain in its place for now. It's still too cold and wet to paint the wood, that will probably happen in the spring just as the grass starts seeding.