Last day at Ivin Waite.

Arriving in support mode to collect barrows etc to return to the Bewerley store, and braving the close attention of a dozen curious heifers, I walked from Ivin Waite to the walling site which is concealed in a cleft of the hill. The ringing of hammer on stone echoed round the craggy amphitheatre, bringing to mind a scene from The Hobbit, and indeed from a distance the Wallers appeared diminutive. Graham, Rich & Roderick were actively gathering and shaping candidate toppers from the quarry spoil, heavy work that on the osteopath's advice I had had to decline. The newly built wall corner looked impressively robust, the assembled toppers uniformly aligned ready to complete the final few yards of a fine job in a fine location. The heifers were positively drooling.

Barry S.
No. of Waller: 3

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Round and About

Birstwith

Road closures on the way from Ripon to Pateley meant a bit of a detour so I extended the detour to see how the second of our Birstwith walls is holding up.

As we left it

How it looks now

Link to blog post from last time we were there

 

Hackfall

I was at Hackfall the other weekend and noticed that someone has effected a repair on the car park wall that we had offered to rebuild. No comment.

Rich.

Wilson’s Plantation, Birtswith - Wednesday 21 May 2014

For our last week we had lovely weather with the  sun shining through the trees and the midges deciding not to bite.  Catriona, Roger and Roderick  completed the corner stretch, Barry and Richard filled the gap between the gate posts, Tony topped out a long stretch of the wall, and towards the end was ably assisted by Roderick who was noted in despatches for his heroic efforts chiselling toppers from solid rock - and not doing his tennis elbow any good at all . Graham completed a bit of seamless patching on another part of the wall which had been taken down on a whim the previous week, before moving on to assist Barry. 

                                           Richard contemplates his day’s work

 and Barry views his task for the day

Graham starts to bridge a gap

 and nearly complete

Roderick “The Stonemason” at work

Roderick produces another topper from his secret store

   

Tony's toppers

Barry & Graham place the last stone of the day

 Roderick tries his hand at moss covering

 A fine piece of finished work

Barry wonders how he can reach his bike

 

 We were all pleased with the final result and hope Sean is as well.

Graham & Tony