Desert rocks

Gordon has no interest in gardening and will have nothing to do with plants, apart from those he can eat, But he does like spending time outside, demolishing and constructing. Here are two barrowloads of stone which he brought into the garden this morning. I have no idea what he is going to to do with it, but I did wonder where he got it from.

Apparently it was from a builder who is working on a barn/house just across the way at the top of the field. The building, one of the original village buildings, is attached to what was a farmhouse and has been used for different purposes over the years, although as long as we have lived here it has been almost a ruin. Now it is being totally rebuilt and will be a house. It gets a new roof tomorrow apparently. 

The place has had to be emptied of all the stone and rubble not required in the building work and  you can see it all piling up in the field, where the blue sheets are. They were only too willing for Gordon to take some of it away.

It is mostly red sandstone, almost certainly originally quarried down in the ghyll. It is the stone that underlies the Eden Valley and was used in many of the old village houses. 

(We had snow this afternoon - only a few flakes, but definitely snow.)