Rebuild including a steps

Just finished a lovely job rebuilding a wall and adding steps so the owner could access the land below the wall.
HUGE stone needed to make the steps! very heavy...never be in doubt that we women can move heavy stone when we need to!

Wall collapsed...

Some great stone available for steps...it has to be long enough to form a step either side of the wall.

The finished wall...still needing copes but with steps in place!

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2019 - 2020 - A year not to be forgotten!

What a year 2020 has been...A year of working alone, not meeting with colleagues, no shows, no teaching and a number of jobs lost. Still, I consider myself blessed to have a job where I can be outside, not needing to worry about commuting or having to wear a face mask! In 2019 I finished 250m of a wall in Kirk Ireton which has become known as Emma's wall to friends and neighbours who walked past on a daily basis to observe progress. It was almost a 4 season wall! Finished! 2019 A group of wallers from the Derbyshire Branch of the DSWA spent 5 days on Orkney building a wall for a community. It was a memorable experience for us all and left a beautiful curved seat. 2019 Two operations on my hands slowed me down towards the end of the year! Extending and rebuilding a wall encompassing a wheel as a feature One of my most favourite walls to date in The Brund, a 60m retaining wall, all dry stone. A beautiful setting which I worked on during the fabulous weather of the first lockdown 2020

Ah, Ha...Ha

Thank goodness the weather has now picked up a lttle, it has felt a long time coming! This spring has seen some lovely projects so far including my first Ha Ha. A rebuild of an almost derelict wall, reinstating it to its original wavy line! Spring has obviously been the season for driveways and gateways as I have completed 2 more and am about to embark on another tomorrow

Copestone Dry Stone Walling

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