It's officially Spring - the clocks have gone forward an hour and it's British Summer Time. We wanted to get the building finished before the weather improved and the garden started bursting into life. So we've really pushed on over the last few days. The newel post, banister rail and spindles are in place at the top of the staircase -


- and the tower has been built up to it's finished height.

Now we need to tidy things up and lay the paving in the courtyard ready for the planting for which the folly will act as a focal point.

March 2007 and we have started work building up the tower. The first thing to do was build the wooden viewing platform at the top of the staircase. The image here shows the finished platform with a short wooden block acting as a temporary newel post.

The top of the tower is to have an uneven 'tumbledown' rim and building it is very much a case of making it up as we go along. We are almost finished now - we need to build up high enough in front of the platform to incorporate a banister rail and spindles.