Construction of the Cabin Path Continues
Photos: February 2021
Text: 1 May 2025
Rather than a series of individual reports, here I merge reports of the five separate days in February on which I took photos of the progress of the work to raise the final few yards of the path to The Manna. The photographs include those taken both before and after the discovery that The Manna was Moving.
Saturday 20 February 2021
These images start in the last week of the month. At this stage I can't recall the reason for the gap in work. Most probably it was the weather that discouraged me from working outside, but taking time to order the sand that I was to use as a base on which to lay the plastic grids, which were to be filled soil and seeded could have been a factor.
Taken at 14:24, which, presumably, is when I returned to the site after a morning's work on the path. It seems that another yard or so of logs have been added to the path since 12 January and the last photographs were taken and, of course, there's the sand that has been added to the path.
Stepping back further we can see that there's been a lot of traffic on the very soft wet ground beyond the length yet to be filled with logs.
This image was taken at 15:19, presumably at the end of the day's work. It does look as if the bed of the path has now reached the turn in front of the cabin.
Sunday 21 February 2021
This view was taken at 15:53 and little change can be seen from the final photo taken the previous day, but it does confirm that bed of the path has reached the turn by The Manna. If there was work done, the presence of the trestle on the veranda suggests that the time was taken spent collecting logs and cutting them to length.
The sandy footprints in the mud are about the only thing you see that is new in the photographs taken today.
Wednesday 24 February 2021
It's near the end of the day's work. Another couple of feet of logs have been added to the path bed since the weekend.
It must have been the end of the day's work at 17:09, when this picture was taken. The logs newly laid now have their topping of sand.
Saturday 27 February 2021
Once more, it's near the end of the day's work and there's a pile of sand ready to be spread and tamped down between the logs.
Fifteen minutes later and the last photo taken is at 16:31. The sand has been spread and more of the logs arranged to take the next barrow load of sand
Sunday 28 February 2021
It's the end of the month and work has progressed, if not quite as quickly as I would have hoped.
It's 16:16 and the barrow is loaded at the end of another day's, and month's, work.
The one thing I notice as I write the last caption for this month is that a few of the grey grids, the second type we bought, not those that were to be bought for this section of path, have been stacked on the cabin veranda throughout the month. I don't recall at what stage the grids for this section were ordered, but I do know that I was less happy with them than the first type. They were less deep and not rigid enough to resist moles burrowing under them. Not only that, they were considerably more expensive than the alternatives now available. As a result the few of the grey grids remain unused anywhere in the grounds. too flexible and when
