Ferry Glen Seat

Today we went to the Ferry Glen in Queensferry to build a stone seat by the side of the walk/cycle way that runs along the route of the old dockyward railway.
The Glen is admirably run and maintained by the Friends of the Ferry Glen, and they'd made ready the site and arranged for the delivery of stone and mortar (a necessary evil in such a public place). 

There were only a few of us (well, two until I arrived an hour late, ably assisted by Neil from the Friends), but the mostly rectangular Alston stone we were using is quite quick to build with, so by the time Liz (also from the Friends) had shown up with some fantastic banana bread, and Neil had brought us bacon and sausage rolls for lunch (and Chris had turned up to swell our numbers) we'd got the first three courses on and had made a start on the fourth, seat-level course. 

The design is similar to the bench we build at Slateford by the Water of Leith (see previous posts), but with a seat on only one side: this usually faces a waterfall but due to recent dry conditions it was hard to tell that this was the case - fortunately(?) this won't usually be true.
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We knocked off at about 4 with the seat back still to do - Richard and Alan are heading back tomorrow to finish it off.

And, of course, proof that it works:

UPDATE 5/9/2016:

Richard, Alan and Chris returned the next day to put the back on:

And here's the finished product. Hopefully we'll be returning at some point to do some more work at Ferry Glen.