Work on grounds, front and back

The house itself has not moved forward for quite a while as I had not yet found a builder to erect the frames. Thanks to my project manager Paul a builder, Peter, an old contact of his, has been found and he will start in a few weeks, all being well. Meanwhile we are in the midst of a couple of jobs to improve the landscape around the house.

I don't think I have mentioned in this blog, but a garden railway is being planned for the southern area just beyond the house deck!! You may recall a blog entry from May last year where I stayed at the rural homestead of my friends, John and Jan, to look after their dogs. John had built a wonderful railway on the old tennis court. (Search "big sky rail steamup youtube".) Unbeknownst to me (and them) at the time, they sold their idyllic rural abode late last year and moved to a house in Tamworth. Their new place has no room to reconstruct their garden railway, so I offered the space for it at my new house. The only problem was that I did not quite have a large enough level area, so we have managed to find a bit more dirt from the neighbours left over from their builds and dump it on my southern platform where it awaits being pushed out by an excavator. See it here:
I have also being busy hooking up a new irrigation system for the upper and middle gardens behind the house. Here I am testing the sprinklers on the middle garden. Ironically I got it going just after we had 85 mm last week, and another 20mm yesterday. The top two gardens are ready to plant out, but the lower garden still needs back-filling as you can see.

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