The Gunns descend from London

Graham, Lorraine James and Catherine are visiting for a few days... What can we get them to do. Well, Graham was able to help loosen the soil at the bottom of a couple of raised beds for us... no easy task as the ground seems to have baked hard in the sun. Seun was on hand to supervise, and make sure the job was well done. (see photo below).
Lorraine and I were able to fill the raised beds as they were dug, with the turf I removed from the same piece of ground.. feels like that was a waste of time and effort, though no doubt good experience. I could put that on my C V now, quailfied Turf Roller ( read that correctly please) and Mud Crawler.. guess that doesnt have the same ring about it as a mud fighter, but think I am better suited to being a Mud Crawler .After a layer of turf came 6 bags of well rotted compost,then about ten wheelbarrow loads of topsoil. ( did I mention that these are BIG beds, 5m x 1.2m , or 5yards x 1,5yards ( Sort of rough conversion, for the oldies ).Then it was time for tea and cake. Praise the Lord.
James meanwhile was seconded to pond shaping duty. This involved the making of several shelves to rest the water plant baskets on, and a lot of throwing of the ball for Ruby, who dose not seem to recognise the inportance of the task. The pond has been named James Pond (not 007) in recognition of James effort . Catherine was relaxing after several heavy nights out ( in London , before she came to visit) and was making sure the conservatory looked attractive.
After lunch ( 3 pm in Wales ), the comittee of David and Graham ( with a lot of nagging from me ... as I was worried that David would leave the cover for the poly tunnel until we were on our own again) decided that we would " go for it " ie: put the cover on the tunnel frame. A Huge piece of plastic (21m x 39m )was moved into the field and allowed to warm up in the sunshine. Another stalling tactic by the men I feel.Luckily Mar3k and Anna then arrived from Fareham, just in time to have a glass of cool drink, and get a move on with helping us. ragging the cover over the frame was the easy bit, then came the stabilising, the starghtening, the repositioning, the cursing, redoing the stabilising, fiddling, measuring etc etc. Did you just hear a fog horn booming ? I think it said "Boring ,tedious necessary."
Finally, the boys declared the job was done for the day, and we could get back to it tomorrow, Joy.