clearing the stables

Not quite a Herculean task (did Hercules have to worry about rabbits under the floor?), but a very dusty one just the same. First I chucked everything easily moveable out:



Then it was a matter of shovelling up a half-century's worth of dirt and rotten boards. The rotten boards went straight on the bonfire and the dirt is now filling holes in the embankment and should look very nice once if the grass seeds germinate.

Here's how it looked when it was finished:



I plan to take up the stone floor and put down concrete, in the hope that this will sufficiently deter the rabbits living down there before the walls collapse. In a couple of places the stones dropped suddenly under my feet (though only about six inches) when I trod on a bit with a burrow under it. The cats had a field day, and indeed they had a rabbit for supper last night as a result of the newly accessible burrows (I locked them out after they brought it in to play with).

These stables will eventually become my workshop. Whether they will include a woodstore or not is something I've yet to decide.