Our children were attracted to the top corner of our courtyard even though it was not a very interesting area of the nursery. (Could it have been because it was as far away from the staff as they could possibly get?). So we decided to create a rockery there to brighten up the area.
This presented us with the problem of finding the soil, stones and other materials needed on our limited budget. By chance, one of the children's uncles had a business laying driveways and had just dug up three in quick succession. He delivered a small lorry-load of soil outside our perimeter fence, and parents volunteered one Saturday to carry everything into the courtyard.
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