The digger at work

The initial plan for what will probably be the last major work on the garden was removal of the laurel hedge and planting of a mixed, mainly native, hedge.  But once they'd removed the laurel hedge behind the garage, we realised that it had been taking up a lot of room, and there would be room for a passage down there to enable Husky to reach the grass around the pond.  It just needed some levelling/retaining.  So that's the next stage of work.

A grey day, but at least it wasn't raining, so work proceeded.  The soil dug out from here is being used to level out the front lawn - see extra - there was a marked dip between the grass and the kerb.