Day one - meeting Joe and getting started
Over breakfast at the production house, a very familiar figure breezed in. It must be odd, introducing yourself every day to people who know exactly who you are. 'Hi, I'm Joe'. Well yes, we know. We all shuffled about for a few minutes, not quite knowing what to say, in my case mentally supressing questions like 'how come you look taller on the telly?'....'how well do you and Monty get on?' etc. But Joe is easy company and the nervousness soon evaporated once we all got chatting.By 9am, breakfasted and miked up for the first time, we were raring to go. But we had been warned that the first morning would be frustrating, and indeed it was. We all had to wheel our bright yellow BBC barrows in (several times) and be introduced by Joe, while we gazed upwards into the adoring eye of the overhead camera. It was long after noon before we got started.
Joe and some of the crew, in one of their regular huddles outside our garden gates.(Photo courtesy of Lorraine)
While we were waiting, we were introduced to our hard landscaping helpers - mine was Geoff, (he is one of the permanent team at Berryfields) - and I wasn't joking when I told him he would be the second most important person to me for the next three days, after Hazel, of course. He was, or would have been if he'd been allowed to... More of that later.
We eventually got going and once I'd marked out the hard landscaping lines with string and pegs we started digging.
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