How to dig dirt

This blog should really have been called 'How To Dig Dirt'. Seems like I have been doing nothing else for a year.

Before we began again...full of soft patches, holes and lots of water.

Digging further back towards the edge of the section.

Lots of lovely top soil came out of this hole, this is from a garden area that has been cultivated for 100 years, so lovely dark, rich soil to save and use on top of clay somewhere.

 Newly flattened out ready for a layer of gap7 stones as the under layer for the paving. Its supposed to rain soon, so we shall see how good the slope and drainage is.