Alec, who is smart, calculated that the single crop circle we double dug today was 27m2. It took 4 grown men and one little girl 2 and a half hours to double did the circle. The topsoil was about 6 inches deep then that lovely orange clay stuff! We managed to dig through the clay to a spade's depth (1 spit) and dug in bark chippings. Then the topsoil went back on and the manure goes on sometime soon. An exhausting and backbreaking afternoon, made all the better by lots of tea and homemade soup and baked spuds and a solstice liturgy and the now obligatory singing of the Diggers' Song.
Many thanks to the Diggers All, Liz, Andy, Bex, Alec, Johnty, Silvester, Juliette, Rosie, Lydia, Freya, Ferdy, Felix and Fiona.
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