Veg intentions
It's the good life - or maybe not. No chickens and pigs in this garden -at least not yet. We do however intend to grow some fruit and veg. In order to do that you need somewhere to grow them. Having done some background reading it seems that using raised beds is a bit more straightforward than having a plot. So beds it is, which calls for some more wood construction - always welcome 
First job is to drive some stakes into the ground, get them level and then screw some boards to the sides. All the wood is pressure treated.
Once that's done on all four sides it's time for more digging 
to fill each bed with earth:
Next is to lay some membrane around all the edges and to cover with woodchips:
I've covered a couple of the beds with more membrane as we won't get the chance to plant this year and want to keep the weeds out. Here's also some more views back to the shed:
Shed electrics
If you read the earlier post on Summer House electrics then you'll already have the jist of this. Before this level could be finished and covered in gravel electrics need to be run in. I'll let the pics explain:
New pad
No, not a new house but a series of concrete pads onto which a new shed will be built.
First get the ground roughly level:
I then dug 4 holes about 3 feet deep and filled with hardcore. On top of this I set some square formers:
Having got the formers level (which took some doing!!) I then filled each with concrete to create the finished pads:
How to remove a tree stump – the hard way!!
Another day, another stump. For reasons previously explained no machinery here - all hard graft and digging. This time though I did take regular breaks which enabled me to snap a few pics as I was going.
First dig a trench all around said stump:
Then attach rope and winch. Try to winch out. Realise that it isn't going to move just yet 
More digging. Then use digging spike to cut all the roots from underneath the stump.
. . . .sometime later, after more digging and winching. The stump is out.
As if digging a stump out wasn't hard enough, there was this huge field stone underneath the stump as well. I'll be off to the chiropractor tomorrow!
Summer House electrics
So here's the back level of the garden finally levelled out:
Next job is to cover this with membrane and then a lot of gravel (not looking forward to borrowing all that up the hill!!). Eventually there will be a Summer House/Workshop type building on this space. However before I can cover the ground I need to run the electrics in. So that involves some work in this corner:
In order to comply with current building regs garden electrics need to be buried quite deep in the ground. Hence this trench:
Having lined the bottom of the trench with pea shingle to help drainage it's then time to run the conduit and armoured cables in the trench:
More pea shingle secures and protects the electrics:
Extra protection is provided by old paving slabs on top of the shingle:
Finally some warning tape goes on top of the slabs to warn any future diggers:
I now need to fill in the final trench with some earth and some more warning tape just below the surface. It's a lot of work these days running garden cables!!
Totally stumped!
This is the first of a couple of stumps which need removing. Due to location it's next to impossible to get any machinery near to drill them out.
Here's a pic of the beginnings of a trench round the offending stump.
I had to dig this trench much deeper and then hack away the roots from below with a matock and digging spike. Finally it was winched out.
I was far to knackered after to take any pics. I'll take some work in progress shot on the next stump 