Easter Break

Well I hope everyone had a lovely Easter..
My dear friend Tanya and her children Ayden & Kiera came up on Thursday.. I love having them here and Tan & I have such a giggle, normally at Mick's expense.. He loves us really.. I really miss them, well to be honest I miss all my friends, but not enough to persuade me to return to England. Tan invited me down for a visit, to catch up with everyone, hope to get down there at some point this year. Kiera had a bit of an accident while she was here and you can see by the picture, she grazed her face and the following morning had a lovely shiner.. Tanya didn't want me to post any pictures of her on my blog, but told her that I would, so she pulled silly faces every time I got the camera out.. This was the only half decent one of her. They left on Sunday as her kids were due back at school on Tuesday, whereas my boys are no off for 2 weeks.
Sunday, Katie Ben's girlfriend arrived and she is staying for two weeks.. Ben & Katie have gone into town today, for a walk about and to visit the Candy Box which is an old fashioned Sweetie Shop in Newcastle Emlyn.
We've ordered some more fencing posts, that will hopefully be here tomorrow, so that we can the little paddock secure and fence off the slope behind the workshop and the railway carriage. I don't want any of the ponies going over the side.. Talking of ponies, not long now till the new arrivals will be with us.. Very busy time ahead..

Ground Work Finished......

Well the ground work is finally finished.. It looks one hundred and ten percent better.. We will now be able to get the static caravan moved.. Yippee.. And I'll finally be able to see out of the lounge window.
The stable yard looks massive now that all the crap has gone and we have so much extra room. Eventually want to put up another row of stables... I'm so pleased with it.. We now have a proper slope down into the little paddock, which will stop the lawnmower getting stuck in all the mud.. All that's left to do is to put up some fencing, to stop the ponies going over the edge and a new gate.. I'm then going seed the bank with grass seed and native meadow flowers, I can imagine it next year in full bloom..

More Digging

Took these piccies today....

Harry On His Quad...

I took this video in January.. Just Harry riding his quad bike....

Art, Dirt & Prizes

Wednesday and Thursday this week, Ben had his Art exam 5 hours each day.. The brief was Barriers. He decided to construct a glass barrier representing an American prisoner at visiting time, on each side of the glass he made a hand print, he also cast his arm and one of the girls arms in the class.. These have been positioned as if their hands are touching through the glass, he then painted the arms and the bottom of each side with tattoo designs. One being a swallow which represents freedom... It also shows that the body is used as a canvas.. These pictures were taken after the 1st 5 hour session.. He's taken some more pictures of it finished which I get him to blue tooth me..
Ben also came home with a letter asking ask to go to Prize giving next week, as he has been awarded the Form prize for Attainment & Effort...
Ben also has an appointment at Guy's Hospital London today, so just waiting to find out how he got on.
JCB man is here today, nothing got done yesterday as the JCB broke down and he had to wait till today for the parts to be delivered. He's managed to get the other digger round, so more dirt is being shifted today..

More Pictures ...

Its definitely getting there, I can put up with the mud and mess ,because at the end of all this, we will have a bigger yard, the van will be moved and the place will look so much tidier...Plus I'll now be able to get to the back of the workshop and the railway carriage to give them both a good coat of paint...

Ground Work..

This is the before & during pictures of the ground leveling. The static caravan is being moved to this position.. The top picture is of the stable yard after it had been cleared.. Hopefully today this ground will be levelled..