Not A Lazy Sunday

It seems some people carried on for quite some time after I left yesterday - loads of extra bits have been cleared, like these raised beds.

I have decided that eliminating brambles is my main mission right now so I mostly did that. Here's the left side from the gate as I left it yesterday:

We had been told that the Legendary Water Tap of Bar Lane was somewhere in that lot, so the front part had been cleared by the time I arrived this morning - but all that had been found was this hole in the ground, complete with concreted-in pipe:

Not to be deterred, I carried on chopping and hacking, paying no attention to the vicious barbs which threatened my arteries at every turn. I cleared brambles from the raised platform in the corner as there was a rumour that this was where the real pipe was.

Finally, after many a crisis in faith, a glint of metal!

Elsewhere in the garden I cleared, guess what? Another vast pile of brambles, currently piled up in that raised bed. I'm really happy to find out that what I thought was brambles behind that bed are in fact raspberry canes, lovely, almost thorn free, canes, with only a few brambles winding their way through.

Next time, more brambles, I'm sure.