The Ha Ha.

[scooby]

I finally got registered so this is my baptism if you like. Phil. asked how the "moat" was going. It is actually a Ha Ha and is all but finished except for a few grass seeds and a bit of fencing at one end.

This is the history of the job.

Notice the obligatory pile of hardcore along the edge to satisfy Mrs. Scooby. I can't have straight lines for the mower, oh no, she thinks that would be too easy for me so I have to be turning with the ride-on right on the edge.

[oxenboy]

Brilliant,good way to do it

[Deleted]

That's turned out very nicely Scooby, I'd wondered what Phil meant.
I agree with Mrs Scooby about the rocks

Am I right in thinking you moved to Wales?

[scooby]

Thanks Oxenboy and good morning to you and Joyce.

Yes, we did move to Wales but for family reasons we have regrettably just put the place on the market.

www.struttandparker.com/farms-and-estates-for-sale/welshpool-powys/farm-and-estate_SBY090077.html

[Deleted]

Gosh Scooby, after all that work too. It's amazingly beautiful.

Don't know if you read that we're trying to retire back to the mainland - not sure where to though -

www.property-in-scotland.org/croft-hebrides/
www.hebrides.ws

but need the right person/family to take on this place. Plenty wanting a house, not so many wanting the land as well.

[spike]

nice looking place you have got there

[stockslave]

Shame after all that work, and it is beautiful. If only I was twenty years younger!

[wulvo]

If only I could win the lottery

[welshdairyfarmer]

Blimey Scooby, small world, I grew up at Llanfair ;D

[Deleted]

Hope you got planning for it my neighbour set to and built one and the planners came down on them like a tonne of bricks. Had to try and get retrospective planning still arguing about it now looks like it may end up in court. Made a good job of yours though.

[scooby]

Jul 5, 2009 19:25:46 GMT @yeldarb said:

Hope you got planning for it

I didn't come in with the last load of bananas.

That was the first thing that I did.

[scooby]

Jul 5, 2009 17:32:11 GMT welshdairyfarmer said:

Blimey Scooby, small world, I grew up at Llanfair ;D

Small World indeed WDF. I bet you know this place.
In the 2nd photo, the one with the post bumper, you can see Pant Y Briallu in the background.

PM me if you like.

[4wd]

That place would be £2m+ in this area.

[phil]

Ah, a moat without Water!

What with trolls & with people posting under different names....my refrence to "the moat" was Just my way of making sure scooby was the genuine article (and you probably won't find a more genuine person)!

It looks fantastic Scooby, not so sure about "the granite outcrop" though?

Top quality job.

[scooby]

Jul 6, 2009 10:03:37 GMT @phil said:

Ah, a moat without Water!

What with trolls & with people posting under different names....my refrence to "the moat" was Just my way of making sure scooby was the genuine article (and you probably won't find a more genuine person)!

It looks fantastic Scooby, not so sure about "the granite outcrop" though?

Top quality job.

Thanks for the kind words Phil. Yes, I wasn't that keen on the pile of hardcore but when they've got a bee in their bonnet you know what it's like.

Plus the fact that I did a job for a neighbour and tatted the stone as payment.

But I do enjoy getting stuck in with the digger and 14tn dump.

David.