I’ve made it to very few of the “Green Gym” sessions run by the local council’s contractors for caring for outdoor spaces but a gap in the diary meant I could get down for another dry stone walling session at Outwoods this morning.

I managed to remember what I’d learned from the session last August although the available material made it a bit tricky to implement. Ideally you need a decent stock of long, flat and heavy stones to lay from the edges and back across the centre line. That gives the wall strength, along with building flat surfaces where possibly to put higher layers on and finding pieces that give a good face to the wall (to let water run off rather than being jagged).

Still, we managed a reasonable job although only on a fairly short section of quite a long wall.