In The Beginning

Well, this picture is what I grabbed off google earth (i've outlined our plot), I think it's a good couple of years before we got the site... pretty overgrown even then, as you can see. You might also be able to make out the caravan, but more of that later...

The second one's from the start of October last year, during a break from one of the many tidying sessions... (that's Marjon, Lisa and The Dude, by the way) Note the big old shed in the background...
Tidying sessions that lead to the bonfire that we had in November last year. Here's Strokes standing proudly next to the pyre...

The 4th picture is just a litle bit of the junk we have had to sort and remove from the site, not to mention the carvan that bit the dust on bonfire night, (ok, we were a bit drunk, we did throw a big old shed on there, and we did finally wreck the already wrecked caravan!!!)

It took quite a few really cold January days to sort everything that was burnable from the general rubbish, glass and metal that was left over from the bonfire. My brother kindly threw a door made completley of glass and metal on the fire late on in the proceedings (you can actually see the remains of the door propped up against the fence in the background of the last picture). Hours of fun digging hundreds of thousands of little shards of glass out of the ground.

This was only the start though, we then had to deal with the actual body of the caravan. My brother (in a fit of guilt) arranged for someone to pick the chasis up, which was really helpful but we still had to strip the carcass back to the aluminium sheets it was constructed from before we could fold it up... once it was folded up we just left it outside the allotment, someone took it a few days later....

job done, one caravan gone, phase one complete!!!!