We were at Hopetoun House all this week, laying a snazzy new path for the patrons of the Antiques Roadshow to wander along, from which they could admire the house. Luckily a digger had been the week before and cleared out 6 inches of mud from the 100m section of path, so we didn’t have to!
On Tuesday we laid and compacted all of the 6 tonnes of hardcore that we had. There was a lot of shovelling and a lot of wheelbarrowing. We finished off with a bit of rhododendron clearance and a fire.
Having done that first section, the following days’ groups had even further to go with the wheelbarrows. We’d had more material delivered, this time it was old road surface, allegedly from the Forth Road Bridge… So on Wednesday one group continued with the wheelbarrowing and compacting, while another group got the fire going again for the rhododendron.
Thursday started with quite an impressive snow-shower which luckily cleared up to leave a beautiful sunny afternoon. We finished off the path, burnt the rest of the rhodie, and left the place looking a lot more presentable than when we’d arrived.