Two Over One

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Behind the cottage there is about forty metres of dry-stone wall, half of it standing and half of it in the grass where it fell years before I arrived. Putting it back up, a metre or two at a time, has become the thing I do on dry weekends. Along the way I have built a few smaller pieces with lime mortar: a raised bed, three steps, a low retaining wall for the compost.

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Three metres of field wall in four days, and where the time went
Hearting: the part nobody sees and the reason walls fall
A lime-mortar raised bed: 1 to 2.5 and a week under hessian
Three garden steps: riser height, tread depth and a frosty night’s worry
Dressing stone with a hammer and chisel, and a thumb
Reading the fallen wall before touching it

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