Things have been very wet for the past two days and it has made the digging go alot easier. I have dug out most of the rocky soil and what is left now it mostly clay which is very hard to dig. The water has helpped alot so I might not need a digger after all, but I'll have to see how I fair.

I have been doing a little bit of digging I have dug out all the gravel from the footings and now have to dig into the soil. It took me about a day to dig out all the gravel and the picture show the result of half an hour of digging in to the soil. I sill have to dig down another 100mm to get to the right level. I think that I will be getting somone with a small digger in to do the rest as it is very slow going and would take me till the middle of next year to do the entire building.

Ground breaking

Now I have my sand and mud on the correct side of the building I can start to dig.

The clay which I have washed and made pure. I will be getting this from the trenches that I will be digging for the buildings footings. I will go into detail of that process another time.

Things are on the move again after a quite Christmas break.
This 4.5t pile of sand will be mixed with the clay under the black plastic in the background to become the render on the studio walls.